Sr. Hardware Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink)

About the role

As a Sr. Hardware Engineer on the Starlink team, you will have complete ownership over the development of millions of customer-facing products and devices that we ship directly to end users (Starlink dishes/user terminals, Wi-Fi routers, etc.). Our customers include teachers in remote parts of the Amazon, researchers in Antarctica, digital nomads, emergency responders, commercial airlines, cruise lines, and residential users in rural or developing areas. You may also be responsible for designing next-generation gateways to ensure our ground station antenna hardware withstands harsh environmental conditions while maintaining reliable global communication with millions of users.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing to guide hardware from initial concept to full-scale production.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with our 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 (mechanical, thermal, software, test engineering, supply chain, silicon design, etc.) 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

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
• 5+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware
• Ability to work extended hours or weekends as needed for mission-critical deadlines
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree
• 8+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products
• 8+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production; emphasis on full life-cycle development of new hardware
• 8+ 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
• 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