Principal Electrical Engineer, Satellites (Starlink) is open at SpaceX in Redmond, WA. The posting gives a salary of $190K - $290K. Posted on Aug 14, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with our satellites Evaluate third party electrical and design integration solutions for reliable operation of Starlink Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing teams, and production test teams Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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