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SpaceX · Starbase, TX · Electronics · first seen 2026-10-27
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Sr. Electrical Design Engineer (PE)

SpaceX's Starbase launch facilities are the center of plans to revolutionize space travel, serving as the primary site for Starship development and operations. You will own utility-scale power projects at Starbase - transmission lines, substations, and generation facilities - advising internal teams, engineering firms, and EPC contractors to ensure designs are constructible, compliant, and ready on schedule.

Responsibilities

  • Act as primary technical owner and reviewer for transmission and generation design packages produced by internal teams, engineering firms, and EPC contractors; confirm readiness for procurement and construction
  • Direct large EPC efforts covering high-voltage transmission (lines, structures, and rights-of-way), transmission substations and switchyards, and generation facilities from concept through detailed design, procurement support, construction, and commissioning
  • Develop standardized design criteria, specifications, drawing templates, and review checklists to ensure consistent, constructible, code-compliant documents
  • Give project managers and leadership clear readiness calls on design maturity, long-lead equipment, permitting, constructibility, and construction sequencing; surface schedule risk early
  • Own the construction-phase technical interface: respond to RFIs, disposition field changes, direct contractors and vendors on technical issues, and support commissioning through turnover
  • Interface with electric utilities, transmission providers, ERCOT, and authorities having jurisdiction on interconnection, routing, permitting, and compliance
  • Resolve technical issues across civil, structural, electrical, protection and controls, and mechanical disciplines; push designs that are safe, reliable, and fast to build
  • Stay current on NESC, NEC, IEEE, NFPA, and Texas utility practice; fold lessons from construction and commissioning back into standards; mentor engineers while holding consultants and contractors to the same bar

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical or other engineering discipline
  • Active Professional Engineer (P.E.) license with ability to stamp and certify electrical plans
  • 8+ years of experience in electric utility engineering, including technical leadership of design, specification development, and permitting or interconnection

Preferred Qualifications

  • Extensive, hands-on experience on large EPC builds of both electrical transmission and electrical generation. Transmission experience must include lines and substations at transmission voltage. Generation experience must include utility-scale plant facilities and grid interconnection. Prior work at scale comparable to multi-mile transmission, transmission-voltage substations, and utility-scale generation
  • Record of taking projects through detailed design, equipment specification and procurement support, construction support, and commissioning
  • Manager-level experience at an engineering or EPC firm hired by electric utilities to design and build large-scale transmission and generation systems
  • Direct responsibility for transmission at 69 kV and above, including line design and substation or switchyard design (air-insulated and/or gas-insulated)
  • Direct responsibility for utility-scale generation and balance of plant, such as simple-cycle or combined-cycle gas plants, including interconnection to the transmission system
  • ERCOT and MISO interconnection experience; familiarity with Texas and Louisiana coastal design conditions including high wind, corrosion, and flooding
  • Depth in protection and controls, grounding, and substation physical and electrical design
  • Proficiency with AutoCAD, PLS-CADD or equivalent line-design package, substation physical design tools, and ETAP, SKM, ASPEN, or similar study software, plus document management systems
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous, high-tempo situations and make decisions with incomplete information while holding a rigorous technical standard

Additional Requirements

  • This is not a remote or hybrid position and requires relocation to Brownsville, TX area if not already local
  • Position occasionally requires ability to work extended hours or weekends
  • Ability to travel to Louisiana, Florida, California, Texas, and internationally if required
  • U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from U.S. Department of State to conform to U.S. Government export regulations