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Antenna Engineer (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Product Engineering
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Bastrop, TXfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Antenna Engineer responsible for ownership of phased array, Wi-Fi, and other RF systems for Starlink customer-facing hardware, as well as advanced parabolic antenna systems for gateways/ground stations. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to move designs from concept to production.

Responsibilities

  • Design, fabricate, and characterize prototypes of antennas, feed systems, and RF front ends for next-generation phased arrays, gateways, and consumer wireless products
  • Create electromagnetic simulation models of hardware (antennas, filters, PCB layout) to design and evaluate performance
  • Work in close collaboration with electrical, mechanical, digital signal processing, and software engineering teams to design and validate RF systems
  • Create and test phased array alignment solutions
  • Rapidly develop design, validation, and production test solutions for our high-volume consumer products and gateway antennas
  • Write automation software in python to interact with units under test, test equipment, instrumentation, and documentation systems

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of experience with antennas or communication systems (internships and extracurricular projects are applicable)
  • 1+ years experience with radio test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, vector signal analyzers, vector signal generators, and network analyzers
  • 1+ years of programming experience in Python, C#, C++, or MATLAB

Skills

Required:Electromagnetic simulationProgramming in Python
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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