SpaceX is looking to solve novel engineering challenges in deploying Starlink, the world's most advanced broadband internet system, which aims to provide fast, reliable internet to millions of users worldwide by leveraging their experience in building rockets and spacecraft to deploy the world's largest satellite constellation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, programming with C or C++.
- 3+ years of professional experience working with wireless software or network protocols.
- Strong knowledge of wireless communications, signal processing and/or network protocols.
- Knowledge of RF systems and fundamentals: noise figure, link budget, non-linearity.
- Experience writing software for RF/mixed-signal integrated circuits and/or systems, such as phase-locked loops, mixers, data-converters, RF attenuators.
- Familiar with design and implementation of Digital Signal Processing algorithms and techniques: FFT, time and frequency domain equalizer, channel estimation, pilot tracking, digital pre-distortion, doppler compensation.
- Experience in any of physical and/or MAC layers in broadband access technologies such as: Wi-Fi, LTE, 5G or satellite broadband.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and maintain physical and MAC layer software of the wireless software stack for the Starlink communications network.
- Participate in architecting current and next-gen Starlink hardware and signal processing algorithms.
- Participate in hardware bring-up, debugging, verification and launch.
- Work with other teams for cross-layer integration of the end-to-end system.
- Develop prototypes to prove out key design concepts and quantify technical constraints.
- Collaborate with other engineers to plan and organize the development of our products.
- Firmware, embedded, and signal processing software running on custom hardware that flies the world's largest fleet of spacecraft.
Other
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or STEM discipline.
- Creative approach to problem solving, exceptional analytical skills and engineering fundamentals.
- Strong skills in debugging, performance optimization, and unit testing.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment with changing needs and requirements.
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- 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.
