Manager, Electrical Design
Published: 1 month ago
SpaceX
Revolutionizing space technology
The 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.
**MANAGER, ELECTRICAL DESIGN**
**RESPONSIBILITIES:**
- Provide engineering expertise in the area of design, development and test of space hardened avionics hardware
- Subsystem design and prototyping, schematic capture, prototype bring-up and debugging, hardware bug tracking, functional verification and signal characterization
- Support hardware through test and production
- Manage and mentor other hardware development engineers
- Scope out projects and man power effort estimation
- Drive innovation to improve reliability and capabilities and reduce cost and schedule
- Ensure projects are staffed and schedules are maintained
- Report project status and resource loaded schedules to peers and upper management regularly
**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:**
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science
- 5+ years of experience in hardware development
- 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership position
**PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:**
- Master’s degree or PhD in electrical engineering
- Experience with analog, digital or mixed-signal design principles including designs using operational amplifiers, filters, or transistors
- Experience in design and development of analog to digital and digital to analog converters, power supply components and design, analog testing/troubleshooting techniques, or signal integrity, layout and grounding principles
- 8+ years of experience in hardware development
- 5+ years of experience managing teams
- Experience with satellite avionics
- Experience in fast-paced iterative design environments within the consumer electronics, mobile handset, medical devices, or automotive industries
- Experience with high reliability electronic system design, verification, and validation methods
- Ability to work across multi-disciplinary teams
- Strong work ethic and drive to succeed
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Passion for advancing the commercial space industry and human spaceflight
- Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding start-up atmosphere
**ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:**
- Willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
**ITAR REQUIREMENTS:**
- To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR [here](pmddtc.state.gov/?id=ddtc_kb_article_page&sys_id=24d528fddbfc930044f9ff62…).
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should notify the Human Resources Department at (310) 363-6000.
**MANAGER, ELECTRICAL DESIGN**
**RESPONSIBILITIES:**
- Provide engineering expertise in the area of design, development and test of space hardened avionics hardware
- Subsystem design and prototyping, schematic capture, prototype bring-up and debugging, hardware bug tracking, functional verification and signal characterization
- Support hardware through test and production
- Manage and mentor other hardware development engineers
- Scope out projects and man power effort estimation
- Drive innovation to improve reliability and capabilities and reduce cost and schedule
- Ensure projects are staffed and schedules are maintained
- Report project status and resource loaded schedules to peers and upper management regularly
**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:**
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science
- 5+ years of experience in hardware development
- 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership position
**PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:**
- Master’s degree or PhD in electrical engineering
- Experience with analog, digital or mixed-signal design principles including designs using operational amplifiers, filters, or transistors
- Experience in design and development of analog to digital and digital to analog converters, power supply components and design, analog testing/troubleshooting techniques, or signal integrity, layout and grounding principles
- 8+ years of experience in hardware development
- 5+ years of experience managing teams
- Experience with satellite avionics
- Experience in fast-paced iterative design environments within the consumer electronics, mobile handset, medical devices, or automotive industries
- Experience with high reliability electronic system design, verification, and validation methods
- Ability to work across multi-disciplinary teams
- Strong work ethic and drive to succeed
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Passion for advancing the commercial space industry and human spaceflight
- Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding start-up atmosphere
**ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:**
- Willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
**ITAR REQUIREMENTS:**
- To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR [here](pmddtc.state.gov/?id=ddtc_kb_article_page&sys_id=24d528fddbfc930044f9ff62…).
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should notify the Human Resources Department at (310) 363-6000.