Manager, Gateway Electronics Engineering (Starlink)

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 5-10 engineers to rapidly design, develop, and validate highly reliable electronics for our gateway systems
• Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging
• Define and manage all key project milestones and deliverables
• Maintain alignment with key partners such as antenna, software, mechanical, networking, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams to drive overall business success
• Compile and maintain lessons learned to influence future designs. Understand and implement long-term technical and business solutions that meet/exceed goals to deliver for our customers and Starlink’s vision
• Drive product architecture with a focus on innovative solutions to achieve low cost, greater performance, best user experience, and extended reliability. Implement automated design validation tests and production tests as necessary
• Recruit, develop, and promote a team of exceptional engineers and/or specialists responsible for designing, analyzing, building, and testing existing and new Starlink gateways. Set standards, and hold the team accountable to deliver with high technical rigor and discipline
• Own and build out associated engineering lab or development workspaces; hire necessary team members to deliver assets required, and efficiently manage associated capital spend
• Consistently contribute effort, leadership, and creative thinking to solving complex problems in a collaborative fashion and under tight deadlines. Above all, remain dependable, which means being unfazed by ambiguity or major changes in strategic direction
• Ensure a strong focus is placed on safety and maintain an excellent safety record

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or other engineering/STEM discipline
• 7+ years of professional experience with hardware design/development or electronics test engineering
• 3+ years of management experience

PREFERRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Previous experience managing large and multidisciplinary technical projects, ideally driving hardware design from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life-cycle development of new hardware products and not small incremental updates to legacy hardware
• Significant experience rapidly designing and delivering highly-reliable products, especially for harsh or high stakes environments in the field
• Significant 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
• Significant experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics
• Strong problem-solving skills when designing and qualifying hardware for EMC/EMI compliance and thermal management
• Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++)
• Strong understanding of computer networking and interfaces (10/100/400/800G networking/Tbps switches)
• Strong understanding of optical networking architectures and fundamentals
• Experience in desktop/server Linux and embedded operating systems
• Experience leading a diverse team of engineers, while providing technical direction and strong mentorship
• Ability to communicate complex concepts, problems, and solutions clearly and effectively to all levels within the organization
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent programs and be able to discuss configuration, execution, and results in a technical manner

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Must travel to other SpaceX sites (Hawthorne, CA and Redmond, WA) as needed to interface with team members and drive technical projects
• Able to work long hours and weekends as necessary