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Lead Electrical Engineer, Hardware Reliability (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Reliability - Bastrop
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Bastrop, TXFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Lead Electrical Engineer responsible for reliability of Starlink hardware from factory to field, leading a team to minimize failures, influence product design, and ensure compliance with quality standards.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers and specialists focused on hardware reliability and field performance for the Starlink User Terminal Kit, including user terminals, Wi‑Fi routers, power supplies, and cables.
  • Allocate resources across new product qualification campaigns, production reliability priorities, and field hardware investigations to ensure appropriate technical coverage, timely execution, and rapid troubleshooting of failures.
  • Develop individual team members through technical mentorship, clear ownership, and growth-aligned opportunities.
  • Partner with hardware design, software, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to influence current and future designs and maximize reliability across the product lifecycle.
  • Manage or lead technical investigations with tight timelines concerning isolated or fleet-wide performance or hardware issues affecting Starlink customers.
  • Develop and execute reliability qualification strategies for new and existing products to maximize field life and readiness for mass production.
  • Design and execute environmental, mechanical, electrical, RF, and system-level reliability testing to qualify changes in high volume manufacturing.
  • Automate reliability test execution, data analysis, and reporting to improve speed, repeatability, and decision-making.
  • Define and monitor ongoing reliability testing and monitoring strategies to assess manufacturing process health and long-term risks.
  • Define and monitor critical hardware and performance field metrics (e.g., product return rates) to identify reliability shortcomings.
  • Oversee production quality activities including containment, MRB, defect processing, quality metrics, training, and factory command media.
  • Identify manufacturing inefficiencies impacting reliability and drive process improvements to increase first-pass yield and reduce scrap.
  • Maintain applicable quality system and ISO 9001 requirements.
  • Lead root cause investigations for qualification, production, and field failures; drive corrective actions.
  • Perform telemetry and log analysis and hands-on debugging to resolve hardware failures in the field.
  • Understand Wi-Fi standards and Starlink network operation.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, materials, manufacturing, aerospace, or related engineering discipline
  • 2+ years of experience executing complex engineering projects in design qualification, manufacturing, hardware reliability, reliability testing, or production
  • 1+ years of experience leading a team of 3+ engineers

Skills

Required:LeadershipReliability engineeringEnvironmental, mechanical, electrical, RF testingRoot cause investigations
Nice to have:Data analysis and automationQuality systems (ISO 9001, AS9100)

Benefits

  • Not specified in provided description
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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