Electrical Engineer New Grad - Starship
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Entry, Junior
Bachelor's, Master's, PhD
Brownsville, TX, USA
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Electrical EngineeringPower Systems Engineering, Controls & Automation Engineering
About the job
Requirements
- Graduating with a bachelor's degree, master's degree, or PhD in 2027.
- Degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline.
- At least 1 year of electrical experience with power systems, automation and controls, or board and sensor design.
- Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, operate, and maintain electrical systems.
- Develop analog and digital circuits from first principles for extreme environments, including switching power converters, signal conditioning, filters, and high-integrity layouts; support hardware through production, integration, and flight while collaborating across teams.
- Develop high-reliability avionics components and drive system trades, requirements, component selection, schematic capture, prototyping, bring-up, debugging, analysis, acceptance and qualification testing, documentation, manufacturing support, and flight support.
- Participate in the conceptual development of automated equipment and processes for Starship production.
- Troubleshoot issues hands-on, support technicians, and ensure safe, efficient operation of systems in dynamic environments.
- Design, build, operate, and maintain the microgrids that comprise Starbase, Texas.
- Create and maintain sitewide power budgets, monitoring, and metering for mission-critical assets to optimize visibility and efficiency.
- Ensure compliance with NFPA 70, 70B, 70E, NESC, and IEEE standards.
- Develop and implement protective relay settings and schemes for high-voltage equipment.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with power systems analysis tools such as ETAP, SKM, EasyPower, PowerWorld, MATLAB, and PSCAD, and with load-flow, short-circuit, arc-flash, coordination, and transient-stability studies.
- Familiarity with industrial power systems up to high voltages, including switchgear, transformers, battery energy storage systems, variable-frequency drives, motors, uninterruptible power supplies, generation, relaying, and metering.
- Experience with industrial communications such as Modbus, DNP3, IEEE protocols, Ethernet, and fieldbuses, as well as networking concepts.
- Experience with programmable logic controller programming, human-machine interface and supervisory control and data acquisition development, robot systems such as Kuka, ABB, and Fanuc, and safety systems.
- Electrical schematic and panel design experience, including hands-on building and commissioning of control panels and electromechanical systems.
- Experience with analog and digital circuit design, signal conditioning, power electronics, converters, magnetics, inverters, filters, electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility, high-speed digital layout for signal integrity, high-voltage systems, batteries, load switches, microcontrollers, field-programmable gate arrays, networking including single-pair Ethernet, and circuit-board design for manufacture.
About the company
SpaceX builds and launches reusable rockets and spacecraft for NASA, the military, and companies, and it runs Starlink, a satellite internet service for homes and businesses. In 2020, its Dragon capsule became the first privately built spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station. Its Falcon 9 rocket lands its first stage so the booster can fly again, which cuts launch costs, while Starlink beams internet from low-orbit satellites to small dishes for a monthly fee. SpaceX also owns xAI, maker of the Grok chatbot and owner of the social network X, and is building Starship, a fully reusable rocket meant to carry people to the Moon and Mars. Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, and it is based in Starbase, Texas.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Starbase, Texas
Founded
2002
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Starlink demand keeps compounding: subscribers doubled to 12 million in the year to June 2026.
- Room to grow: SpaceX listed 2,693 open roles in October 2026, over a third of them for Starlink.
- Rivals rent its AI supercomputers: Claude maker Anthropic agreed in May 2026 to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion a month.
What critics are saying
- Stock grants swing hard: shares closed between $108 and $211 in the four months after the June 2026 IPO.
- Expect long weeks: 1,724 of SpaceX's 2,693 job posts in October 2026 mention extended hours and weekend work.
- AI spending outruns sales: SpaceX put $15.8 billion into AI data centers in the June 2026 quarter, double its revenue.
What makes SpaceX unique
- SpaceX is the world's busiest launcher by far: its 165 orbital launches in 2025 were nearly double China's total.
- Starlink carries the profits: it earned $1.7 billion in the June 2026 quarter, while rockets and AI lost $1.8 billion.
- Elon Musk has the final say: super-voting shares give him about 82% of shareholder votes after the June 2026 IPO.
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