Sr. Electrical Design Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink) Verified today
About the role
As a Senior Electrical Design Engineer on the Starlink team, you will have complete ownership over hardware development from initial concept through full-scale production. You will work regularly with silicon, software, mechanical, RF, and manufacturing partners to deliver tightly integrated, high-performance electronics.
Starlink develops three categories of products:
- Customer-facing products manufactured in millions per year (Phased Array, Wi-Fi Router, Power Supplies)
- High performance and high reliability electronics for Starlink Gateway and Ground Systems (Control Boards, Motor Controllers, High Power Supplies, Advanced RF Electronics, Battery Systems)
- High-performance compute and networking electronics for the Starlink Network
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with satellites
- Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test
- Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams
- Get hands-on to support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight
- Drive continual improvements by building physical and digital tools to analyze on-orbit and lab data
- Challenge assumptions and find simple solutions to complex problems
Basic qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
- 5+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware
Preferred experience
- Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar
- 8+ years designing and delivering highly reliable products
- 8+ years full lifecycle electronic product development from concept through production
- 8+ years designing mixed-signal circuit boards using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DDR4 interfaces, I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, ADC/DAC, and power supply components
- 8+ years testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics
- Strong understanding of Python, C, or C++
- Demonstrated ability to work in highly cross-functional roles
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 ITAR regulations