2025-04-15

Job Description:

Become a part of the Starship Electrical Hardware Development team and support the mission to revolutionize orbital flight and space travel – opening access for humankind to establish new frontiers in space, and ultimately make human kind a multi-planetary species.

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Job Responsibilities:

• Design and test for electromagnetic and power quality compatibility requirements
• Work with cross functional teams to optimize manufacturing rate, quality, testability, mechanical packaging, thermal, software, and dynamic control
• Collaborate on motor selection, architecture development, and system trades to maximize overall performance, system reliability, and cost of mass to orbit
• Perform power device component selection and qualification, along with enabling a robust supply chain
• Perform schematic capture and review for flight layout designs, along with contributing to critical power stage layout
• Manage development scope, and schedules in support of vehicle milestone targets
• Provide robust analysis and simulation work products, along with bench test and environmental testing to ensure we field reliable products
• Own inverter products through the full lifecycle, from concept through flight and sustaining
• Investigate line-side production defects with timely troubleshooting, along with spending time building and installing flight hardware to understand production costs
• Create high quality product technical documentation and conduct formal design reviews
• Characterize hardware to fully understand performance capabilities and limitations
• Support field defects with troubleshooting, root cause investigations, and field replacements as required
• Perform sub-system and system level integration testing to validate system compatibility

Job Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and testing power electronics, inverters, or related electronics (research and extracurricular academic projects qualify)
• Experience designing power electronics operating at hundreds of volts and tens of kilo-watts
• Proficiency with design and testing for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
• Proficiency with Python
• Experience with test systems, test automation, and data reduction
• Experience with commercial product development
• Familiarity with high voltage safety procedures, including arc flash and lock out-tag out
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
• Passion for spaceflight and power electronics in high-reliability applications
• Experience with motor selection, parameter identification, and control design
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Hands on experience with electrical test equipment (scopes, meters, etc.)
• Robust foundational knowledge of power electronics and analytical methods
• Ability to work in a fast paced, self-driven, and demanding environment

Job Details:

Company: SpaceX

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Hawthorne, CA, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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