Electrical Test Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind)

The role

This person will design and develop automated test solutions for complex, space grade hardware. They will work on electrical hardware including power electronics, high speed digital systems, mixed signal designs, avionics, networking, and custom compute electronics for the Starmind satellite constellation.

What you will do

• Design and develop automated test solutions for complex, space grade hardware
• Select commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and/or design custom PCBAs to measure signals, apply flight-like loads, and power units under test
• Write automation software in Python to interact with units under test, test equipment, instrumentation, field data, and production documentation systems
• Work closely with and consistently provide feedback to responsible design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and test lab teams to drive design or infrastructure improvements to increase product reli
• Challenge assumptions and work to find simple solutions to complex problems

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
• 1+ years of experience with hardware development or electronics test engineering
• Ability to work extended hours or weekends as needed for mission critical deadlines

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering or related field
• Strong grasp of analog control and discrete logic design
• Experience analyzing circuits and developing functional test plans
• Experience designing and troubleshooting PCBAs
• Experience with test equipment and measurement techniques to verify and validate product requirements (oscilloscope, multimeter, electronic load, spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, vector signal gen
• Understanding of electrical schematics and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage
• Understanding of metrology, sources of measurement error, and uncertainty analysis
• Experience developing object-oriented software
• Thorough understanding of electronics reliability and failure mechanisms
• Understanding and experience in environmental testing such as HALT/HASS, thermal, vibration and TVAC

About the company

SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make human life on Mars possible. They are developing Starmind, a new constellation of satellites capturing solar energy in space to power low-cost, high-performance AI compute for Earth.