Principal Electrical Design Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink)
Core
Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with satellites, including customer-facing hardware (dishes, routers) and next-generation gateways.
Role type
Principal Electrical Design Engineer (hardware)
Builds
Starlink user terminals, Wi-Fi routers, and regional gateway hardware
Domain
Satellite communications, consumer hardware, space infrastructure
Required skills
electrical circuit design, mixed-signal PCB design, hardware debugging, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, system trade-offs, requirements capture, power supply design, analog/digital converter design, SerDes interfaces, FPGA integration, processor integration, thermal analysis, manufacturing integration
Preferred skills
full life cycle hardware development, mixed-signal circuit board implementation, high-speed serial interfaces, multi-GHz Serdes, DDR4 interfaces, I2C/SPI protocols, Python programming, C/C++ programming, cross-functional collaboration
Technologies
FPGAs, Ethernet, DDR4, I2C, SPI, SerDes, Python, C/C++
