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PCB Designer (Starlink)
SpaceX is deploying Starlink, the world's largest satellite constellation, providing fast reliable internet to millions of users worldwide. We design, build, test and operate all parts of the system: thousands of satellites, consumer receivers, and supporting software. We're looking for experienced PCB designers to join the team as we upgrade and expand the constellation.
As a PCB Designer, you'll own the layout for all in-house board designs. You'll partner closely with Hardware Development Engineers as they develop schematics, providing your expertise at each design review and iterating designs for optimal solutions. You'll contribute to designs ranging from radio phased arrays to solar power converters.
Responsibilities
- Determine layer stackup, perform component package selection, component placement, and routing feasibility studies for digital, analog, RF and power conversion printed circuit boards
- Perform signal routing and power routing
- Create and maintain component libraries
- Create and release documentation for PCB fabrication
- Collaborate with internal teams and PCB vendors to improve design rules, constraints, and design for test and manufacture guidelines
- Utilize PCB design tools, maintain and evaluate new tools, and train team members
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and 1+ years of professional PCB layout experience, OR 3+ years of professional PCB layout experience in lieu of a degree (internships and club/project work applies)
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 2+ years of PCB layout and routing experience with modern passive and active electronics components, surface-mount, RF components, ball-grid array, or high pin density components
- 1+ years of experience with ECAD libraries and library configuration management
- Demonstrated understanding of design for manufacturability, assembly and test
- Experience with Mentor Xpedition and/or Altium Designer (Mentor Xpedition preferred)
- Experience with mixed analog and digital designs, high speed buses, FPGA, DRAM and CPU designs, power supplies, DC-DC converters, transmission lines, impedance-controlled traces and power traces
- Experience with MIL-STD, commercial and IPC standards and design
- Experience monitoring industry-wide parts availability
- Ability to visualize component placement and interconnectivity
- Experience with scripting and automation
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with others
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. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State to conform to U.S. Government export regulations