About this role
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 of enabling human life on Mars.
LEAD AVIONICS INTEGRATION & TEST ENGINEER (STARSHIELD PRODUCTION)
Starshield leverages SpaceX’s Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads.
In this role, you will lead a portion of the team responsible for designing, developing, troubleshooting, and maintaining the hardware test systems used to develop, produce and qualify our satellites. As the lead, you would cultivate your direct reports to develop electrical, RF, and software solutions that quickly and thoroughly validate each component of satellite hardware. Our engineers thrive in this multidisciplinary environment with ever-changing needs as we strive to make a significant contribution to the capabilities of our nation for the decades to come.
Our development timelines are quick, and you and your team 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:
• Provide strong technical leadership with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Manage projects and delegate responsibilities effectively to complete work on time.
• Determine team goals to effectively implement testing solutions.
• Develop and enforce processes to standardize test system deliverable expectations.
• Develop highly reliable autonomous test systems.
• Own all aspects of test development, including requirements evaluation, system development, subsystem testing, and factory integration.
• Collaborate with teams, lead projects, and continuously drive improvement in hardware testing.
• Create modular, reusable software in Python to automate manufacturing processes and tests.
• Collaborate directly with the design and manufacturing engineers to validate flight hardware.
• Actively maintain tests that support rapid design iteration of flight hardware and software.
• Develop test infrastructure that enables scaling to large numbers of devices under test.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, physics or another engineering discipline.
• 2+ years of professional experience in testing or hardware development.
• 1+ years of leadership experience leading teams, projects or people.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
• 5+ years of professional design and/or hands-on manufacturing experience.
• 3+ years of prior leadership experience leading teams, projects or people.
• Master's degree in engin