New Graduate Engineer, Electrical (Starshield)

About the Role

As an electrical development engineer on the SpaceX team, you will demonstrate extreme ownership through detailed and thorough design, hardware bring-up/characterization/testing, and requirements generation/verification - ultimately seeing your hardware through all aspects of its life cycle. You will work with many cross-disciplinary teams and will need to think at a system level to ensure that your design is viable. Our development timelines are quick and you will need to rigorously explore solutions for previously unsolved or unknown problems.

Key Responsibilities

• Rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with our satellites.
• Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging.
• Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing teams, and production test teams.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering.

• Graduating with a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, or PhD in 2026 or 2027.

• Preferred Skills And Experience:

• 2+ years of experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products.

• 2+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware products and not small incremental updates to legacy hardware.

• 2+ 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+ years of experience testing, troubleshooting and debugging electronics.

• 2+ years of experience with fast-paced projects.

• Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (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 communication skills both written and verbal.

Additional Requirements

• An active clearance may provide the opportunity for you to work on sensitive SpaceX missions; if so, you will be subject to pre-employment drug and random drug and alcohol testing.

ITAR Requirements

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. §1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. §1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.