

Electrical Engineer, Gateway Ground Stations (Starlink)
Location
Redmond, WA
Level
Full-Time
Department
Aerospace
Type
Salary
$100,000 - $135,000
Job Description
Posted on:
2025-03-10
The Electrical Engineer for Gateway Ground Stations at SpaceX will work on designing, building, and deploying ground station antennas for the Starlink satellite constellation, aiming to enhance global connectivity.
Responsibilities
- Diagnose performance and reliability issues through telemetry, testing, and hands-on debugging.
- Develop fixes, validate them in the field, and train field specialists on procedures.
- Build software solutions to monitor gateway and site health and improve hardware autonomy.
- Collaborate across teams to eliminate failure modes through hardware, software, and operations changes.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, or similar STEM discipline.
- 1+ year of experience in hardware-focused controls, electrical, or software engineering projects.
- Ability to communicate effectively and work independently as well as in a team.
- Experience with hands-on troubleshooting and debugging of mechanical or electrical hardware.
- Bonus skills: experience with closed loop control systems, PCBAs, quality tools, programming languages (Python, C, C++, SQL), and business reporting software.