Lead Hardware Development Engineer (Starlink)

• Lead a team of 3-5 engineers to rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for our Gateway systems

• Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging

• Optimize existing designs to improve reliability and reduce production and field defects

• Implement automated design validation test assets to speed up development cycles

• Hire, coach, and develop direct reports so they can own their products and make decisions without waiting on you

• Develop and train direct reports to enable product ownership and empowered decision making

• Partner with antenna, software, mechanical, networking, thermal, manufacturing and production test teams

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or physics

• 3+ years of professional experience with hardware design/development or electronics test engineering

• 6+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly-reliable products

• 6+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware products and not small incremental updates to legacy hardware

• 6+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces (DDR4), I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, analog to digital and digital to analog converters, and power supply components

• 6+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics

• Strong understanding of computer networking and interfaces (10/100/400/800G networking/Tbps switches)

• Strong understanding of optical networking architectures and fundamentals

• Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++)

• Experience in desktop/server Linux and embedded operating systems

• Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

• Ability to work extended hours or weekends as needed for mission critical deadlines

• Ability to travel to other sites (Hawthorne, CA and Redmond, WA) up to 20%

• 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. Learn more about the ITAR here .

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