PCB Designer (Starshield) Verified today
About Starshield
Starshield leverages SpaceX's Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink serves consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads.
The Role
As a PCB Designer, you will create layouts for all in-house board designs for Starshield. You will partner closely with Hardware Development Engineers as they develop schematics, providing expertise and recommendations at each design review. You will iterate designs to develop the best possible solutions across a variety of design mixes, from radio phased arrays to solar power converters.
Responsibilities
- Determine layer stackup, perform component package selection, component placement, and routing feasibility studies
- Execute signal routing for digital, analog, RF, and power conversion printed circuit boards
- 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, or 3+ years of professional PCB layout experience in lieu of a degree
- 1+ years of professional PCB layout experience
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, fine pitch, 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)
- Layout experience with mixed analog and digital designs, high speed buses, FPGA, DRAM, 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
- Ability to visualize component placement and interconnectivity
- Experience with scripting and automation
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with others
- Active TS/SCI clearance or ability to obtain and maintain one
Additional Requirements
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- An active clearance may provide the opportunity to work on sensitive SpaceX missions; if so, you will be subject to pre-employment drug and random drug and alcohol testing
Compensation and Benefits
Pay Range:
Level 1: $105,000 - $140,000
Level 2: $120,000 - $170,000
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Base salary is one part of your total rewards package. You may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Benefits include comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks. You will accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and are eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Employees accrue paid sick leave pursuant to company policy which satisfies or exceeds the accrual, carryover, and use requirements of the law.
Those with an active clearance will receive a 10% differential, up to an additional $20,000 annually, once officially briefed into a classified program.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, you 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.