New Graduate Engineer, Electrical (Starshield)

SpaceX · Hawthorne, CA

Posted Oct 19, 2026

Est. total comp~$182K–$281K

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SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

NEW GRADUATE ENGINEER, ELECTRICAL (STARSHIELD)

Our SpaceX team is working on the toughest and most audacious projects on our planet: making humanity multiplanetary. As an electrical development engineer on the SpaceX team, you will demonstrate extreme ownership through detailed and thorough design, hardware bring-up/characterization/testing, and requirements generation/verification - ultimately seeing your hardware through all aspects of its life cycle. You will work with many cross-disciplinary teams and will need to think at a system level to ensure that your design is viable. Our development timelines are quick and you will need to rigorously explore solutions for previously unsolved or unknown problems. Every day, we push the limits of what is possible through innovation, determination, and teamwork to drive the mission to success.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with our satellites.

Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging. …

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Crew department: Life Support

Skills this kind of role usually asks for:

Thermal and fluid systems
Sensors and controls
Reliability and redundancy
Test and verification
Reading P&IDs

Train for it: the Life Support Track: HVAC, Cooling, Water and Power. 4 short modules, a quiz after each one and a final test. Pass it and you get the Mars Mining Certificate in Life Support Fundamentals, with its own public page you can link from your resume.

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I can do Thermal and fluid systems on the job, or have used it in a class or project I can do Sensors and controls on the job, or have used it in a class or project I can do Reliability and redundancy on the job, or have used it in a class or project I can do Test and verification on the job, or have used it in a class or project I can do Reading P&IDs on the job, or have used it in a class or project I have a project or work sample I could show an interviewer My resume is tailored to this kind of role I've practiced answering interview questions for this kind of job

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