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Principal Hardware Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Product Engineering
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Bastrop, TXFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Principal hardware engineering role responsible for end-to-end electrical system design, verification, and production support of Starlink customer hardware and gateways, with ownership of millions of customer-facing devices.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with satellites
  • Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams
  • Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test of complex electrical designs
  • Get hands-on and support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight
  • Work closely with engineers from adjacent disciplines to deliver tightly integrated, high-performance hardware
  • Drive continual improvements to designs by building physical and digital tools to analyze data collected on orbit and in the lab
  • Challenge assumptions and work to find simple solutions to complex problems

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering
  • 8+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware

Skills

Required:Electrical engineering
Nice to have:Mixed-signal circuit designPython, C/C++
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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