Electrical Test Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind) Verified today
Electrical Test Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind)
SpaceX is developing Starmind, a constellation of satellites capturing solar energy in space to power low-cost, high-performance AI compute for Earth. The mission requires highly reliable electrical hardware including power electronics, high-speed digital systems, mixed-signal designs, avionics, networking, and custom compute electronics. These systems must operate reliably in space while delivering connectivity, control, power distribution, and processing for orbital AI inference.
What you will do
- Design and develop automated test solutions for complex, space-grade hardware
- Select commercial-off-the-shelf hardware or design custom PCBAs to measure signals, apply flight-like loads, and power units under test
- Write automation software in Python to interact with units under test, test equipment, instrumentation, field data, and production documentation systems
- Work closely with design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and test lab teams to provide feedback and drive design or infrastructure improvements to increase product reliability and yield
- Challenge assumptions and find simple solutions to complex problems
Basic qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
- 1 or more years of experience with hardware development or electronics test engineering
Preferred skills and experience
- Master's degree in electrical engineering or related field
- Strong grasp of analog control and discrete logic design
- Experience analyzing circuits and developing functional test plans
- Experience designing and troubleshooting PCBAs
- Experience with test equipment and measurement techniques such as oscilloscope, multimeter, electronic load, spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, vector signal generator, and source measurement unit
- Understanding of electrical schematics and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage
- Understanding of metrology, sources of measurement error, and uncertainty analysis
- Experience developing object-oriented software
- Thorough understanding of electronics reliability and failure mechanisms
- Understanding and experience in environmental testing such as HALT/HASS, thermal, vibration, and TVAC
- Strong understanding of computers and programming languages including Python, C, or C++
- Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role
Additional requirements
- Ability to work extended hours or weekends as needed for mission-critical deadlines
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. Section 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. Section 1158, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State to conform to U.S. Government export regulations (ITAR)