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Principal Electrical Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind)

SpaceX· Mesh Optical
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Bastrop, TXfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior electrical hardware engineer responsible for designing and delivering high-reliability electronics for SpaceX’s Starmind AI satellite constellation, enabling on-orbit AI processing and data center workloads through in-house, end-to-end hardware development.

Responsibilities

  • Rapidly develop high-reliability electronics for satellites and spacecraft.
  • Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, test, and on-orbit performance of complex electrical designs
  • Get hands-on and support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight
  • Determine layer stackup, perform component package selection, component placement, routing feasibility studies, and signal routing of digital, analog, RF, and power conversion of PCBs
  • Library creation and maintenance
  • Create and release documentation for fabrication of PCBs
  • Collaborate with internal teams and PCB vendors to continually improve design rules, constraints and design for test and manufacture guidelines
  • Work closely with engineers from adjacent disciplines (mechanical, thermal, software, test engineering, supply chain, silicon design, etc.) to deliver tightly integrated, high-performance hardware
  • Challenge assumptions, question requirements, learn from your mistakes, and approach problems with an open mind

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:Electrical hardware designPCB design and layoutHardware bring-up and testingCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:Mixed-signal designProgramming
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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