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Sr. Electrical Test Development Engineer, Customer Hardware (Starlink)

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

About the role

Senior role owning development of test solutions for characterization of reliability and performance of Starlink customer-facing hardware (dishes/user terminals, Wi-Fi routers, etc.), collaborating across electrical, silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams from concept to production.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop automated test solutions for high-volume consumer phased arrays, WiFi routers, power supplies, and upcoming products
  • Select commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and/or design custom PCBAs to measure signals, apply flight-like loads, and power units under test
  • Write automation software in Python to interact with units under test, test equipment, instrumentation, field data, and production documentation systems
  • Work closely with and provide feedback to responsible design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and test lab teams to drive design or infrastructure improvements to increase product reliability and yield
  • Challenge assumptions and work to find simple solutions to complex problems

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
  • 5+ years of experience with hardware development or electronics test engineering
  • 5+ years of programming experience

Skills

Nice to have:Circuit analysis and functional test planningPCB design and troubleshootingTest equipment and measurement techniquesElectrical schematics and electronics manufacturing understandingMetrology and uncertainty analysisObject-oriented software developmentElectronics reliability and failure mechanismsEnvironmental testing (HALT/HASS, thermal, vibration, TVAC)Python/C/C++ programmingCross-functional collaboration
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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