Sr. Avionics Test Engineer (Starshield) is open at SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA. The posting gives a salary of $165K - $230K. Posted on Jun 16, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Design, develop, and maintain custom test solutions for flight hardware consisting of in-house developed electronics, optics, RF antennas and modulators, and electro-mechanical hardware Select commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and/or design custom PCBAs to measure signals, apply flight-like loads, and power units under test Write automation software in Python to interact with units under test, test equipment…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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