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Lead Hardware Development Engineer (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Product Engineering
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Bastrop, TX, Hybrid (Hawthorne, CA; Redmond, WA)full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Lead hardware engineer position on SpaceX Starlink product development team responsible for developing consumer electronics at high volume, from concept to production, including gateways, satellite communications hardware, and related peripherals.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of 3-5 engineers to rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for our Gateway systems
  • Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging
  • Optimize existing designs to improve reliability and reduce production and field defects
  • Implement automated design validation test assets to speed up development cycles
  • Hire, coach, and develop direct reports so they can own their products and make decisions without waiting on you
  • Develop and train direct reports to enable product ownership and empowered decision making
  • Partner with antenna, software, mechanical, networking, thermal, manufacturing and production test teams

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or physics
  • 3+ years of professional experience with hardware design/development or electronics test engineering

Skills

Required:Electrical engineering
Nice to have:Mixed-signal PCB designNetworking knowledgePython, C/C++
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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