Sr. Optical Transceiver Engineer - High Speed Links, Satelites (Starlink) is open at SpaceX in Redmond, WA. The posting gives a salary of $140K - $235K. Posted on Oct 16, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Apply interdisciplinary knowledge, spanning photonics, electrical engineering/signals, and mechanical engineering concepts to data communication system development, including design, analysis, and validation Represent the optical data communication network in program-level, cross-disciplinary trades and issue resolution Perform trade space analysis between various optical interconnect technologies and approaches to…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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