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Gateway Site Development Engineer – Starlink
| Company | SpaceX |
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| Location | Redmond, WA, USA |
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| Salary | $95000 – $130000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Junior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or STEM discipline
- 1+ years of professional experience in an engineering role
- Willingness to travel to domestic and international ground station sites
- Must be willing to work long hours and occasional weekends when necessary to support launch and critical project timelines
Responsibilities
- Design antenna sites and site hardware to support, connect, and power the antennas all over the world that backhaul the Starlink network
- Travel abroad to create infrastructure development plans with international partners to establish antenna sites that maximize the Starlink constellation effectivity and expand customer access
- Develop new processes and methods that enable rapid deployment of antennas
- Engage cross-functionally to align technical roadmaps with other contributors to Starlink, like business growth, regulatory, or network engineering teams
- Review antenna site reliability over time to develop robust solutions that ensure overall system health
- Demonstrate extreme ownership of product and business outcomes at every stage of conceptualization and implementation
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with electrical, mechanical, or structural design and analysis
- Experience with build, production, or integration of components into an assembly, structure, vehicle, or site
- Demonstrated success in multidisciplinary project execution
- Producing construction drawings or plans
- SQL, Matlab, Python, C++, or similar
- Producing dashboards or analytical and statistical models (Ex: Tableau, PowerBI)
- Physical network infrastructure design or planning
