Sr. Electrical Design Engineer (Starshield) Verified today
About Starshield
Starshield leverages SpaceX's Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. It is designed for government use, with an initial focus on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads.
The Role
As a Sr. Electrical Design Engineer on the Starshield team, you will demonstrate extreme ownership through detailed design, hardware bring-up, characterization, testing, and requirements generation and verification. You will see your hardware through all aspects of its life cycle on a rapidly growing program with a wide range of opportunities from blank-sheet design to on-orbit troubleshooting.
You will work with cross-disciplinary teams and think at a system level to ensure your designs are viable. Development timelines are quick, and you will rigorously explore solutions for previously unsolved problems.
Responsibilities
- Rapidly design, develop and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with satellites
- Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up and debugging
- Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing and production test teams
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering
- 5 or more years of professional experience designing electronics products
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering discipline
- 3 or more years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products
- 3 or more years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production, with strong emphasis on full lifecycle development of new hardware products
- 2 or more years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production 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
- 2 or more years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting and debugging electronics
- 2 or more years of professional experience with fast-paced projects
- Strong understanding of computers and programming languages including Python, C/C++
- Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, autonomously driven, and demanding start-up atmosphere
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Active TS/SCI clearance or ability to obtain and maintain one
Additional Requirements
- 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
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), 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
Compensation
Sr. Electrical Design Engineer: $140,000 to $205,000 per year
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. Those with an active clearance will receive a 10% differential, up to an additional $20,000 annually, once officially briefed into a classified program.
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, discretionary bonuses, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Benefits include comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, 3 weeks of paid vacation, and 10 or more paid holidays per year.