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RF Engineer (Starlink)

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

About the role

RF Engineer responsible for owning phased array, Wi-Fi, and other RF systems for Starlink customer-facing hardware, plus advanced parabolic antenna systems for gateways/ground stations. Collaborates across EE, ME, DSP, and software teams from concept to production to optimize Starlink’s RF hardware and network performance.

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 EE, ME, DSP and software engineers 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
  • 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 professional RF experience with antennas or communication systems
  • 1+ years professional experience with radio test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, vector signal analyzers, vector signal generators, and network analyzers
  • 1+ years of professional programming experience in Python, C#, C++, or MATLAB

Skills

Required:Antenna design and RF front-endElectromagnetic simulationCross-functional collaborationPython automation
Nice to have:Phased array alignment
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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