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Manager, Gateway Electronics Engineering (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Product Engineering
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Bastrop, TXFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Electronics Manager responsible for design, performance, and reliability of next-generation gateway hardware and ground station antennas, leading a multi-disciplinary team to move concepts from development to production while ensuring reliability in harsh environments and global connectivity.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of 5-10 engineers to rapidly design, develop, and validate highly reliable electronics for our gateway systems
  • Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging
  • Define and manage all key project milestones and deliverables
  • Maintain alignment with key partners such as antenna, software, mechanical, networking, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams to drive overall business success
  • Compile and maintain lessons learned to influence future designs. Understand and implement long-term technical and business solutions that meet/exceed goals to deliver for our customers and Starlink’s vision
  • Drive product architecture with a focus on innovative solutions to achieve low cost, greater performance, best user experience, and extended reliability. Implement automated design validation tests and production tests as necessary
  • Recruit, develop, and promote a team of exceptional engineers and/or specialists responsible for designing, analyzing, building, and testing existing and new Starlink gateways. Set standards, and hold the team accountable to deliver with high technical rigor and discipline
  • Own and build out associated engineering lab or development workspaces; hire necessary team members to deliver assets required, and efficiently manage associated capital spend
  • Consistently contribute effort, leadership, and creative thinking to solving complex problems in a collaborative fashion and under tight deadlines. Above all, remain dependable, which means being unfazed by ambiguity or major changes in strategic direction
  • Ensure a strong focus is placed on safety and maintain an excellent safety record

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or other engineering/STEM discipline
  • 7+ years of professional experience with hardware design/development or electronics test engineering
  • 3+ years of management experience

Skills

Required:Electrical engineering fundamentalsProject managementLeadership and people managementHardware design and development
Nice to have:Mixed-signal PCB design
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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