Sr. Electrical Design Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink) Verified today
Sr. Electrical Design Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink)
Starlink operates the world's largest satellite constellation and delivers consumer hardware and gateways that connect users to reliable global internet. You will have complete ownership over the development of millions of customer-facing products shipped directly to end users, including Starlink dishes, Wi-Fi routers, and next-generation gateways. Our customers span remote Amazon teachers, Antarctic researchers, digital nomads, emergency responders, commercial airlines, cruise lines, and rural residential users.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with satellites
- Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams
- Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test of complex electrical designs
- Get hands-on and support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight
- Work closely with engineers from adjacent disciplines to deliver tightly integrated, high-performance hardware
- Drive continual improvements to designs by building physical and digital tools to analyze data collected on orbit and in the lab
- 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 Skills and Experience
- Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering discipline
- 8+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products
- 8+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware products
- 8+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces (DDR4), I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, analog to digital and digital to analog converters, and power supply components
- 8+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics
- Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++)
- Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role
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