Lead Electrical Test Engineer, Customer Hardware (Starlink) Verified today
Lead Electrical Test Engineer, Customer Hardware (Starlink)
SpaceX is deploying Starlink, the world's largest satellite constellation, providing fast, reliable internet to millions worldwide. We design, build, test, and operate all parts of the system including thousands of satellites, consumer receivers, and supporting software.
As a Starlink Production Test Development Lead, you will lead a team of test engineers responsible for high-volume production test. You will work with global contract manufacturers to ensure robust quality of millions of customer-facing devices including Starlink dishes, user terminals, and Wi-Fi routers shipped directly to end users. You will be responsible for the design, implementation, and verification of development, production, and reliability test solutions. You will interact regularly with senior leadership and collaborate with electrical, silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to steer this project from concept development to full-scale production.
Responsibilities
- Lead a small team of test engineers developing fixtures, test cases and automated test solutions for high-volume consumer phased arrays, Wi-Fi routers, power supplies, and upcoming products
- Develop and maintain Design For Test (DFT) guidelines and work with design teams to implement them on new products
- Develop test strategies, perform thorough test coverage analyses, and conduct formal test strategy reviews with peer teams
- 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 drive design or infrastructure improvements to increase product quality and yield
- Challenge assumptions and find simple solutions to complex problems
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
- 5+ years of experience with hardware development or electronics test engineering (internship and extracurricular experience applicable)
- 5+ years of object-oriented programming experience
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 2+ years of experience with technical leadership
- Experience analyzing circuits, developing functional test plans, and performing test coverage analysis
- Experience designing and troubleshooting PCBAs
- Experience with test equipment and measurement techniques to verify and validate product requirements (oscilloscope, multimeter, electronic load, spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, vector signal generator, 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 interacting with repositories using Git commands
- 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 (Python, C/C++)
- Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role
- Basic understanding of networking concepts, Virtual LANs (VLANs) and Network Address Translation (NAT)
Additional Requirements
- Ability to work extended hours or weekends as needed for mission critical deadlines
- Applicant 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 per ITAR regulations.