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Electrical Engineer, Hardware Reliability (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Reliability - Bastrop
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Bastrop, TXFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Electrical engineer on SpaceX Starlink hardware reliability team focused on hardware failure analysis, root cause, and design/process improvements for reliability across Starlink devices, with emphasis on product launches and field returns.

Responsibilities

  • Own qualification and test of new electrical designs and SMT manufacturing lines for high volume production
  • Perform hands-on debugging to drive to root cause and corrective action of failed phased-array antenna, Wi-Fi router, power supply PCBAs, and cables. Failures may be observed in test, production, or the field
  • Utilize advanced diagnostic tools such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, x-ray machines, logic analyzers, and custom firmware scripts to root cause electronics
  • Develop tools and identify equipment to enhance the team’s capabilities in swiftly root causing electronics
  • Run hardware failure investigations under high pressure, coordinating efforts across multiple teams, and communicating findings to leadership
  • Run data analyses on telemetry to further understand the failure landscape
  • Drive design and process changes to improve the reliability of the hardware based on test, production, or field failures
  • Perform electrical bench testing and develop engineering models of failures to replicate and inform mitigation of anomalies
  • Drive root cause of PCBA production yield issues and prevent factory escapes of defective hardware
  • Document failure modes and use data to continually improve reliability
  • Partner with design, software, test, and manufacturing engineering teams to deliver reliable hardware to customers by informing product/hardware design and test coverage

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, electrical engineering technology, or computer engineering
  • 1+ years experience working with digital or mixed-signal designs, using oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, power supplies, and/or soldering equipment (includes internships and school projects)
  • Experience with PCBA manufacturing processes and assembly such as SMT reflow, wave solder, and selective solder

Skills

Required:Digital or mixed-signal design experienceOscilloscope usagePCB assembly and manufacturing processes

Benefits

  • (Not specified in the provided description)
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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