New Graduate Engineer, Electrical (Starshield)

SpaceX · Starshield Satellite Engineering

Where: Hawthorne, CA
Posted: Apr 1

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

NEW GRADUATE ENGINEER, ELECTRICAL (STARSHIELD)

Our SpaceX team is working on the toughest and most audacious projects on our planet: making humanity multiplanetary. As an electrical development engineer on the SpaceX team, you will demonstrate extreme ownership through detailed and thorough design, hardware bring-up/characterization/testing, and requirements generation/verification - ultimately seeing your hardware through all aspects of its life cycle. You will work with many cross-disciplinary teams and will need to think at a system level to ensure that your design is viable.

What you'd do

Rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with our satellites.
Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging.
Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing teams, and production test teams.

What they want

Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering.
Graduating with a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, or PhD in 2026 or 2027.

What you get

Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S.
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