Harness Design Engineer (Starshield)

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. HARNESS DESIGN ENGINEER (STARSHIELD) Starshield leverages SpaceX’s satellite technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads. SpaceX is looking to hire a satellite harness design engineer to work with a brilliant and passionate team of engineers. As a harness design engineer on the Starshield team, you will own harness design from the early stages of developing the vehicle electrical connectivity to component selection, qualification, production, and ultimately flight. This role is extremely multidisciplinary and will give you unparalleled exposure to high-level vehicle architecture and systems integration. RESPONSIBILITIES: Serve as the responsible engineer for satellite avionics interconnection systems, owning outcomes across design, integration, test, production, launch, and in-orbit operations Architect system designs by specifying harness/channel capabilities, power and network connectivity, fault tolerance, reliability, and configuration management. Generate detailed electrical schematics to actualize architecture design Develop electro-mechanical harness designs and drawings in a 3D NX CAD environment, with emphasis on articulating design intent to harness manufacturing and integration counterparts Contribute to overall physical layout design to improve size, weight, power, and ease of assembly of the entire satellite Work collaboratively with stakeholders across all disciplines (mechanical, electrical, RF, EMI, etc.) to identify requirements and close all trades Perform analysis a