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Sr. Hardware Development Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink)

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

About the role

Senior hardware engineering role focused on development of Starlink gateway and customer hardware, ownership over full lifecycle from concept to production, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-reliability electronics for satellite communication and network infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with our 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 (mechanical, thermal, software, test engineering, supply chain, silicon design, etc.) to deliver tightly integrated, high-performance hardware
  • Drive continual improvements to our 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 other engineering discipline
  • 5+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware

Skills

Required:Electronic circuit designSchematic capture and PCB layout
Nice to have:Mixed-signal board designProgramming
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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