New Graduate Engineer, Electrical

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 ofenabling human life on Mars.

NEW GRADUATE ENGINEER ELECTRICAL

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. Our development timelines are quick and you will need to rigorously explore solutions for previously unsolved or unknown problems. Every day we push the limits of what is possible through innovation determination and teamwork to drive the mission to success.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree in electrical or computer engineering.
• Experience rapidly designing electronics products.
• Graduating in the fall of 2025 spring of 2026 or summer of 2026.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 2 years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products.
• 2 years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware products and not small incremental updates to legacy hardware.
• 2 years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors FPGAs Ethernet multi-GHz SerDes DRAM interfaces (DDR4) I2C SPI operational amplifiers analog to digital and digital to analog converters and power supply components.
• 2 years of professional experience testing troubleshooting and debugging electronics.
• 2 years of professional experience with fast-paced projects.
• Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python C/C).
• Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role.
• Ability to work in a fast paced autonomously driven and demanding start-up atmosphere.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• An active clearance may provide the opportunity for you to work on sensitive SpaceX missions; if so you will be subject to pre-employment drug and random drug and alcohol testing

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

Pay range:
Electrical Hardware Design Engineer/Level I: $100000.00 - $120000.00/per year

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills education and experience. Those with an active clearance will receive a 10% differential up to an additional $15000 annually once officially briefed into a classified program.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at SpaceX. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of company stock stock options or long-term cash awards as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical vision and dental coverage access to a 401(k) retirement plan short & long-term disability insurance life insurance paid parental leave and various other discounts and perks. You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation & will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Employees accrue paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy which satisfies or exceeds the accrual carryover and use requirements of the law.

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

• To conform to U.S. 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. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race color religion gender national origin/ethnicity veteran status disability status age sexual orientation gender identity marital status mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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