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Mechanical Engineer, Electro-Mechanical (Starlink)

SpaceX· Satellite Payload Engineering
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Redmond, WA$100k - $117.5kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Mechanical Engineer role focused on electro-mechanical hardware for SpaceX Starlink gateways, specifically owning TWTA ( Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier ) hardware development, troubleshooting, testing, and process improvements to enable rapid, reliable, and low-cost manufacturing of vacuum electronics.

Responsibilities

  • Design the factory and processes to enable rapid, reliable, and low-cost manufacturing of state of the art vacuum technology
  • Work with partner teams to develop novel manufacturing procedures
  • Manage new product introduction and develop production processes for TWTA assemblies
  • Work with manufacturers and suppliers to implement process improvements to improve reliability
  • Collaborate with design teams and provide design feedback to improve manufacturability, cost and reliability
  • Perform environmental and performance testing on hardware to validate analysis and demonstrate compliance to design criteria
  • Demonstrate extreme ownership of product outcomes at every stage of development and production

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline
  • 1+ years of experience designing, building, testing, or troubleshooting hardware via professional work experience, project/research-based student experience, or a combination of both

Skills

Required:Design for manufacturability
Nice to have:Vacuum electronics / high temperature processing (braze)Materials science and solid mechanicsProject ownership / end-to-end ownership

Benefits

  • long-term incentives, in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards
  • potential discretionary bonuses and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • paid vacation (3 weeks)
  • 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick time in Washington State
  • company shuttles for travel from select Seattle locations to SpaceX Redmond office (Mon-Fri)
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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