Power Electronics Engineer, Consumer Hardware & Gateways (Starlink) Verified today
Power Electronics Engineer, Consumer Hardware & Gateways (Starlink)
Starlink provides fast, reliable internet to populations with little or no connectivity. We design, build, launch, and operate the world's largest constellation of satellites, and develop high-volume consumer hardware and high-power gateway infrastructure that connects users to this network globally.
As a Power Electronics Engineer on Starlink in Bastrop, you will own converters and power architecture for hardware that communicates with the constellation. This role covers two product classes on the same team; you may focus on one or work across both.
Product Areas
- Gateway / Infrastructure: Design high-power (multi-kW) AC/DC, DC/DC, and power distribution for outdoor ground-station electronics that must survive heat, cold, lightning, and poor grid quality while staying on-air.
- Consumer / User Terminals: Design the power path for products we ship by the million (user terminals, routers, accessories). Cost, yield, DFM/DFA, test time, and rapid iteration matter as much as efficiency. You will be in the factory loop, not only the lab.
You will own hardware from concept through production ramp and will present design trades to senior leadership. Your customers include teachers in remote Amazon regions, researchers in Antarctica, digital nomads, emergency responders, commercial airlines, cruise lines, and rural or developing-area residents.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and test highly reliable power electronics for hardware that communicates with our satellites.
- Provide engineering expertise in the design, analysis, and testing of AC/DC and DC-DC converters from watt-class boards through multi-kW racks.
- Architect system-level power distribution; lead design trades and development of requirements with RF, thermal, mechanical, test, and firmware teams.
- Own schematic capture, magnetics specification, control-loop design, and layout constraints through prototype bring-up.
- Define and perform electrical power system verification: efficiency, thermal, EMC, surge/transient, and reliability.
- Work with multidisciplinary teams of design, test, and production engineers to take new power electronics from EVT through production ramp and cost-down.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
- 1+ years of experience designing power electronics (converters, magnetics, or power stages); internships or extracurricular experience is applicable.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Master's degree in electrical engineering.
- 3+ years of experience in power converter development.
- Strong understanding of AC/DC and DC/DC topologies, with ability to select optimal architectures and components.
- Strong understanding of analog control and discrete logic design.
- Strong understanding of design for fault tolerance and reliability.
- Experience solving EMC related issues.
- Experience in modeling, simulation, and testing of power electronics.
- Experience in voltage and current mode control and compensation design.
- Experience with AC-DC converters and power factor correction.
- Experience with in-lab impedance measurement and loop-gain measurement.