
Electrical Engineer (Starship Avionics)

Electrical Engineer (Starship Avionics)

Electrical Engineer (Starship Avionics)
SpaceX
SpaceX is seeking an Electrical Engineer for the Starship Avionics team, which focuses on developing advanced electronics for rockets and spacecraft. The role involves rapid development of high-reliability electronics and collaboration with various teams to enhance system efficiency and reliability. Candidates should have a passion for spaceflight and a background in electrical engineering.
Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
- 1+ years of experience designing, building, or testing circuit boards or other electronics (research, internships and extracurricular academic projects qualify)
- Passion for spaceflight and curiosity for electronics in high-reliability applications
- Excitement for making systems smarter, better, faster, cheaper
- Experience making products or systems work with minimal time and resources
- Experience developing fundamentally new hardware, not just incrementally updating legacy hardware
- Experience with circuit board layout, especially for switching power converters or high-speed digital applications
Responsibility
- Rapidly develop high-reliability electronics for rockets and spacecraft
- Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, prototyping, bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test
- Create development and qualification testing campaigns and exercise designs to their limits
- Support hardware through production, integration, and flight
- Work with experts from other teams and departments to drive changes that make the system more efficient, manufacturable, and reliable.



