SpaceX is leveraging our experience building rockets and spacecraft to deploy Starlink, the world's largest satellite constellation and most advanced broadband internet system. We provide reliable and fast internet to millions of users worldwide, including populations with little or no connectivity, rural communities, aircraft, watercraft, and places where existing services are unreliable, too expensive, or disconnected by natural disasters. We design, build, test, and operate all parts of the system, thousands of satellites and consumer antennae that allow users to connect within minutes of unboxing. The Starlink team is seeking out the best-in-class professionals to maximize Starlink's potential for communities and businesses around the globe.
Requirements
- Experience with both electronics and mechanical design and analysis including knowledge of RF principles
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement reliability test strategies for new products and their subcomponents to maximize field life and minimize early life failures
- Develop, implement, and validate test and inspection processes for new and existing products, ensuring that criteria are objective and that reliability goals are consistently met
- Design and execute novel environmental, RF, mechanical, and electrical testing techniques tailored to the product and its functions
- Automate reliability test initiatives and reporting using proper data visualization techniques and thorough knowledge of the product and its functions
- Define the ongoing reliability testing strategy to monitor the manufacturing process health and screen for long-term reliability defects caused by process and component variability
- Investigate failures in test, identifying and mitigating the immediate and underlying root causes in order to reduce risk and improve reliability of designs and processes
- Work closely with hardware, software, manufacturing, supply chain, and product engineering teams maximize reliability across all disciplines and proactively influence current and future designs
Other
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers focused on design reliability and product qualification for all components of the Starlink User Terminal Kit
- Allocate resources appropriately across several next generation product qualification campaigns to ensure appropriate coverage exists for test execution and troubleshooting failures
- Develop individual team members by enabling opportunities suited to each individual that align with the strategic goals of the Starlink Product program
- Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline
- 2+ years of experience in an engineering role within design qualification, manufacturing, reliability test, or a production environment
- Master's degree in electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, or aerospace engineering
- Experience with high-volume manufacturing
