Electrical Test Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind)
Bastrop, TX · 1+ years experience · Posted Oct 8, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 1+ years experience
- Location
- Bastrop, TX
About the role
- SpaceX is developing Starmind, a new constellation of satellites capturing solar energy in space to power low-cost, high-performance AI compute for Earth.
- The Electrical Test Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind) will design and develop automated test solutions for complex, space grade hardware operating in the extreme environment of space.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop automated test solutions for complex, space grade 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, instrumentation, field data, and production documentation systems
- Work closely with and consistently provide feedback to responsible design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and test lab teams to drive design or infrastructure improvements to increase product reliability and yield
- Challenge assumptions and work to find simple solutions to complex problems
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
- 1+ years of experience with hardware development or electronics test engineering
Preferred qualifications
- Master’s degree in electrical engineering or related field
- Strong grasp of analog control and discrete logic design
- Experience analyzing circuits and developing functional test plans
- Experience designing and troubleshooting PCBAs
- Experience with test equipment and measurement techniques to verify and validate product requirements
- Understanding of electrical schematics and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage
- Understanding of metrology, sources of measurement error, and uncertainty analysis
- Experience developing object-oriented software
Skills
- Python
- C/C++
