New Graduate Engineer, Electrical - '26/'27 (Starlink)

About the role

SpaceX is developing technologies to enable human life on Mars. Starlink provides fast, reliable internet to populations with little or no connectivity through the world's largest satellite constellation. The Starlink facility in Bastrop is the newest and fastest growing site at SpaceX, responsible for development and production of all terrestrial and next-gen space hardware for Starlink.

Teams

Below are electrical teams eager to hire top engineering talent at the new graduate level:

• Board level design – Design, develop, and verify highly reliable electronics and customer products
• RF & Antenna – Design, fabricate, and characterize prototypes of antennas, feed systems, and RF front ends for next-generation phased arrays, gateways, and consumer wireless products
• Process – Implement advanced manufacturing processes spanning PCB fabrication, silicon packaging, solar-cell processing, ultimately cementing SpaceX as a leading in-house manufacturing entity in the US
• Test – Design, develop, and program novel and automated test solutions capable of testing tens of thousands of units each day
• Reliability – Spearhead failure analysis and root cause efforts while partnering with design and production teams to ensure hardware is successful and reliable in the real world
• Controls – Lead multi-disciplinary projects spanning machine design, robotics, motion systems, and factory health monitoring to form innovative, high-rate factories
• Compliance – Drive product-level compliance for EMC, radio, and wireless technologies, ensuring regulatory requirements are met for global market access, brand protection, and product safety
• Facilities – Ensure safety and efficiency of electrical distribution systems by improving factory systems site-wide, including substation, switchgear, power distribution, lighting, UPS, Motor Control Centers, VFDs, and generators

Responsibilities

• Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping of complex electrical designs
• Drive hardware bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test of complex electronics
• Create simulation models of hardware to evaluate performance
• Contribute towards pre-silicon verification, chip bring-up and post-silicon validation
• Write automation software in Python to interact with units under test, test equipment, instrumentation, and documentation systems
• Provide engineering support for the design, operation, improvement, and troubleshooting of facility electrical components and systems
• Challenge assumptions and work to find simple solutions to complex problems

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or another STEM discipline
• 1+ years of experience in design/analysis of circuits, electronic products, or hardware (internships/co-ops and club projects can apply)
• Graduating in the class of 2026 or 2027

Preferred Skills and Experience

• 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
• Experience with test equipment and measurement techniques to verify and validate product requirements (oscilloscope, multimeter, electronic load, spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, vector signal generator, source measurement unit, etc.)
• Experience in environmental testing such as HALT/HASS, thermal, humidity, shock & vibration
• Demonstrated understanding of electrical schematics and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage
• Demonstrated understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++)
• Exposure to some variety of production machinery, industrial sensors, and equipment (motion systems, dispense systems, temperature controllers, laser distance sensors, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment with changing needs and requirements

Additional Requirements

• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed