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Lead Electrical Engineer

Starcloud· Engineering
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Hybrid (Redmond, WA)$200k - $250kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Lead Electrical Engineer role at Starcloud, responsible for owning the electrical architecture, design, analysis, testing, and flight execution of all electrical systems on Starcloud spacecraft. Combines hands-on technical contribution with building and leading the electrical engineering team to pursue novel architectures and validate them on ground and in orbit.

Responsibilities

  • Own the electrical architecture: power generation, storage, distribution, conversion, avionics, compute interfaces, harnessing, and grounding across spacecraft and payloads.
  • Lead the hard trades: power architecture, battery sizing, solar array interfaces, power conversion, redundancy, fault protection, and avionics integration, optimized across performance, mass, cost, reliability, and schedule.
  • Push novel architectures: prototype rapidly, test on the ground, validate in orbit.
  • Deliver flight hardware end to end: concept through design, procurement, manufacturing, integration, test, qualification, and launch.
  • Own electrical test: board, subsystem, and spacecraft level, and turn test data and on-orbit telemetry into better designs across successive spacecraft.
  • Build the team: hire, manage, and mentor the electrical engineering team, and set the standards, design-review practices, and verification workflows.
  • Partner cross-functionally: mechanical, thermal, avionics, software, systems, manufacturing, test, and operations.

Qualifications

  • BS in Electrical, Computer, or Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of hands-on electrical engineering: design, analysis, hardware development, integration, and test.
  • Deep command of power electronics, power distribution, batteries, solar arrays, grounding, EMI/EMC, harnessing, and avionics interfaces.
  • A track record delivering electrical hardware optimized for performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, and schedule.
  • Comfortable managing engineers while staying deeply hands-on.
  • Thrive in fast, highly iterative hardware development, with an appetite for unconventional designs and disciplined engineering under uncertainty.

Skills

Required:Electrical architecturePower electronicsSystem integration

Benefits

  • stock options
  • discretionary bonuses
  • medical
  • vision
  • dental
  • 401(k) with company match
  • disability and life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • vacation
  • holidays
  • sick leave
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Starcloud

Data centers in space

(Formerly known as Lumen Orbit) Starcloud is building data centers in space, initially to provide GPU compute to other satellites, and later to address the rapidly growing demand for energy caused by the deployment of AI. Falling launch costs give us access to abundant energy, passive cooling, and the ability to rapidly scale in space. In Partnership with NVIDIA's Inception Program, we are launching our demonstrator satellite in late 2025, which will have 100x more powerful GPUs than have ever been operated in space.

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