Sr. Electrical Hardware Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind)

The role

You will have ownership over the entire life-cycle of hardware that enables advanced on-orbit AI processing and data center workloads. This role involves designing, building, and operating the orbital compute fabric 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
• 5+ years of industry experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware
• 100% onsite and requires relocation to the Austin-Bastrop area if not already local
• U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree
• 7+ years of industry experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware
• 7+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products
• 7+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production
• 7+ 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, ope
• 7+ 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
• 7+ years working on aerospace systems

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.