Avionics Hardware Engineer (Dragon)

$100,000 - $120,000/Yr

SpaceX - Hawthorne, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

Hawthorne, CA

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

As an Avionics Hardware Engineer at SpaceX, you will engage in the entire product life cycle, focusing on electronic design, reliability, and manufacturing. This role involves analyzing and troubleshooting electronic assemblies, defining new processes, designing circuits and tools, and identifying opportunities for improvement. You will be responsible for ensuring the safety and reliability of components that enable SpaceX vehicles to access space, contributing to the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

Responsibilities

• Provide extreme ownership of avionics hardware for flight across all areas of the product life cycle
• Drive changes to electrical schematics and mechanical drawings that improve reliability and manufacturability
• Perform root cause investigations to characterize off-nominal unit behavior and mitigate risk
• Develop high reliability hardware to expand vehicle capabilities
• Derive engineering justification to resolve production issues throughout assembly, test, and vehicle integration
• Design test setups and execute hardware validation through benchtop and environmental testing

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering
• 1+ years of experience in electronics hardware design (academic projects, internships, and professional experience all qualify)
• 1+ years of experience with electrical test equipment (e.g., multimeters, signal generators, oscilloscopes)

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere
• Familiarity managing projects from start to finish
• Self-motivated with strong multi-tasking, organizational, communication, and documentation skills
• Creative problem solver capable of working within a multidisciplinary team
• Analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits
• Electrical schematic capture and PCB design (eCAD) software (e.g., Altium, Orcad)
• Mechanical design (mCAD) software (e.g., NX, Solidworks)
• Circuit simulation software (e.g., SPICE, LTSPICE)
• Design for Excellence (DFX), root cause, derating, and related analyses
• Digital communications interfaces including SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet, and RS422
• Common circuit blocks including filters, power supplies, and microcontrollers

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Various discounts and perks
• 3 weeks of paid vacation
• 10 or more paid holidays per year
• 5 days of sick leave per year
• Long-term incentives in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards
• Potential discretionary bonuses
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan allowing purchase of additional stock at a discount