Job brief: FPGA/ASIC Design Engineer (Silicon Engineering)

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• Listed on SpaceX's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-06.
• The apply link opens boards.greenhouse.io, the address SpaceX's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $125,000 to $195,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Irvine, CA · Redmond, WA
• Posted: 2026-09-30

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Entry level. The posting asks for 1+ years of experience.

Must have

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Physics
• 1+ years of experience in RTL Design using SystemVerilog, Verilog or VHDL
• Master’s in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field
• Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S.
• § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S.

Conditions

• Ability to work extended hours or weekends as needed for mission critical deadlines
• You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year.
• employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/…

Main duties

• Design ASICs and/or FPGAs for Starlink projects, implementing complex SoC blocks and SoC integration tasks using Verilog/System Verilog
• Optimize designs for power, performance and area
• Participate in the full ASIC/FPGA design lifecycle for Starlink projects, from high-level conceptual and architectural discussions through microarchitecture,…
• Contribute to continual improvements to our designs by building physical and digital tools to analyze data collected on orbit and in the lab
• Engage in high-level architectural design for test systems to support FPGA/ASIC validation, generational interoperability, and integration with DSP/communica…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in Washington: $157k a year (843 listings, 40 employers). This listing pays about the same.
• Across SpaceX's 2,895 open listings, 60% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How SpaceX hires

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