Electrical Engineer (Starship Avionics)
SpaceX · Hawthorne, CA
Posted about 2 months ago · $105,000.00 - $122,500.00
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 54 days SpaceX's roles stay open a median of 55 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 52% of SpaceX's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at SpaceX
- high 1754 stale, 43 reposted of 2,362 open
- Hiring momentum
- 3062 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-27
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from SpaceX's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for SpaceX.
About this role
As an Electrical Engineer focused on Starship Avionics, you will be responsible for rapidly developing high-reliability electronics for rockets and spacecraft. Your role will involve system trades, component selection, prototyping, debugging, and supporting hardware through production and flight. You will collaborate with experts across teams to enhance system efficiency and reliability while creating testing campaigns to validate designs.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of SpaceX as an employer.
What you need
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
- 1+ years of experience designing, building, or testing circuit boards or other electronics
Nice to have
- Passion for spaceflight and curiosity for electronics in high-reliability applications
- Excitement for making systems smarter, better, faster, cheaper
- Experience making products or systems work with minimal time and resources
- Experience developing fundamentally new hardware, not just incrementally updating legacy hardware
- Experience with circuit board layout, especially for switching power converters or high-speed digital applications
What you get
- Pay Range: Electrical Engineer/Level I: $105,000.00 - $140,000.00/per year
- Pay Range: Electrical Engineer/Level II: $120,000.00 - $170,000.00/per year
- Eligibility for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards
- Potential discretionary bonuses
- Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
Worth weighing
- Extended hours and weekend work may be required to support critical project and mission milestones
- No specific technologies or tools mentioned, which may affect the clarity of the technical stack
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Listed by SpaceX on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-27. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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