New Graduate Engineer, Electrical (Starshield)

About the Role

SpaceX is developing the technologies to make humanity multiplanetary. As an Electrical Development Engineer on the Starshield team, you will demonstrate extreme ownership through detailed and thorough design, hardware bring-up/characterization/testing, and requirements generation/verification, seeing your hardware through all aspects of its life cycle. You will work with cross-disciplinary teams and think at a system level to ensure design viability. Development timelines are quick, requiring rigorous exploration of solutions for previously unsolved or unknown problems.

Key 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 teams, and production test teams.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering.
• Graduating with a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, or PhD in 2026 or 2027.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.

Compensation and Benefits

• Pay range: Level I: $115,000.00 - $140,000.00/per year
• Actual level and base salary determined on a case-by-case basis considering 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.
• Total rewards package:
• Long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards.
• Potential discretionary bonuses.
• Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short & long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Various other discounts and perks.
• Accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation.
• Eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year.
• Accrue paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy.