Principal Electrical Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind)

The role

You will own the entire life-cycle of hardware that enables advanced on-orbit AI processing and data center workloads. This involves designing, building, and operating high-reliability electronics for the Starmind satellite constellation.

What you will do

• Rapidly develop high-reliability electronics for satellites and spacecraft
• Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, test, and on-orbit per
• Support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight
• Determine layer stackup, perform component package selection, component placement, routing feasibility studies, and signal routing
• Library creation and maintenance
• Create and release documentation for fabrication of PCBs
• Collaborate with internal teams and PCB vendors to improve design rules and guidelines
• Work closely with engineers from adjacent disciplines to deliver integrated hardware

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics
• 10+ years of industry experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware
• Ability to work extended hours or weekends as needed for mission critical deadlines
• Some travel may occasionally be required

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree
• 2+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products
• 2+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production
• 2+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces (DDR4), I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, analog to d
• 2+ 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
• 2+ years working on aerospace systems

Before you apply

• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

About the company

SpaceX is developing technologies to enable human life on Mars. The company is developing Starmind, a new constellation of satellites capturing solar energy in space to power AI compute for Earth.