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title: 'Electrical Engineer at Starpath Robotics'
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# Electrical Engineer at Starpath Robotics

- **Company:** Starpath Robotics
- **Location:** Future Factory
- **Compensation:** $130k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/starpath.space/786b1777-cbec-4fa5-a586-0b75bba98ac6

## Job description

Position Details:

- Location: Los Angeles (Hawthorne), CA
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Department: Starmine
- Travel: Occasional

The Mission Starpath Robotics is developing a full-stack solution for commercial scale rocket propellant production on the Moon and Mars. We are building one of the key enabling technologies that will make humans a multi-planet species. If high ownership, fast pace, working with hardware, and solving challenging technical problems sound like a dream come true, come join the team! Electrical Engineer In this role, you will be a member in the team responsible for the design, analysis, and qualification of all avionics systems at Starpath, across all product lines. Systems include motion control, communications, compute, power management, sensor payloads, and more. You will serve as the responsible engineer on several of these systems from developing design requirements through to the flight execution.

Responsibilities:

- Own systems, subsystems, and components from requirements to deployment
- Conduct trade studies and first-order analyses to define system requirements
- Determine qualification testing criteria in accordance with spaceflight testing standards
- Validate systems, subsystems and components via testing in simulated launch/Lunar surface environments
- Work cross-functionally with adjacent teams to incorporate electrical, thermal, and software requirements while meeting integration timelines and system milestones

Required Qualifications:

- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- 5+ years of experience developing electrical systems for space applications
- Experience with electrical board design (schematic capture, PCB layout, electrical circuit simulation, etc)
- Experience with electrical testing, equipment and setup (multimeters, oscilloscopes, signal generators, data acquisition, etc)
- Strong technical communication and the ability to work in a fast paced team environment

Preferred Qualifications:

- Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field
- 8+ years of experience developing electrical systems for space applications
- Track record of owning and delivering spaceflight hardware across the entire product lifecycle
- Extensive experience with several of the following:
- Embedded system design
- Environmental testing for space environments
- Power system design
- Rapid board prototyping
- Radiation effects, mitigation, and testing

EAR Requirements:

- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, you must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Equal Opportunity:

- Starpath is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Benefits: At Starpath Robotics, base pay is just one part of your total rewards package. We also offer:

- Generous benefits including health, dental, vision, and retirement plans.
- Paid time off, holidays, and flexible policies to support balance.
- Professional growth opportunities through training and development.
- The chance to own high-impact work that directly shapes the future of robotics & space!
- A collaborative, mission-driven culture where craftsmanship and innovation are celebrated.

## About Starpath Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Starpath Robotics designs and manufactures robotic propellant production factories for the Moon and Mars, aiming to reduce the cost of deep-space transport and enable a self-sustaining human city on Mars.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Hawthorne, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Saurav Shroff (CEO & Co-Founder), Mihir Gondhalekar (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Space Research and Technology, Air Transportation, Space Travel, Robotics
- **Target customers**: B2B – space agencies (NASA), commercial space companies (e.g., Starship operators), satellite operators, and future Mars/Moon infrastructure developers.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Building a self-sustaining city on Mars” by producing propellant and infrastructure in space.

## Products & Services
- **Rover (R10)**: Autonomous lunar ice prospecting rover that excavates and delivers hundreds of kilograms of icy regolith. Built for NASA testing and future lunar operations.
- **Refinery System**: Full-stack hardware system for producing and distributing propellant (oxygen, hydrogen, methane) from water ice on the Moon and Mars.
- **Starlight Solar**: Space-rated solar panels that are 90% cheaper than traditional alternatives, with lead times of weeks instead of months. Available for purchase now.
- **Starlight Air**: The world’s lightest space solar panel (announced March 2026). Engineered for high-efficiency power generation.
- **Shadow Voyager**: Exploration vehicle designed for permanently shadowed regions at the Lunar South Pole.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $12.0M (Seed round closed August 20, 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 
  - Fusion Fund (lead investor in Seed round per LinkedIn)
  - 8VC and 10 other investors (per Crunchbase)
  - Contrary, Valhalla Ventures
  - NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (testing partnership)
  - Atomic-6 (development contract for deployable lunar boom)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew 73.7% year-over-year to 28 employees (LinkedIn, 2026)
  - Successful thermal vacuum chamber testing at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (2025)
  - Launch of Starlight Air solar panels (2026)
  - Active hiring for technical roles including first Technical Recruiter

## Competitive Advantages
- **Ex-SpaceX founding team**: Deep expertise in space hardware and propulsion.
- **Full-stack approach**: Covers rover mining, propellant refinery, and solar power – a vertically integrated solution for in-situ resource utilization.
- **NASA collaboration**: Early access to NASA’s test facilities (e.g., 20-ft thermal vacuum chamber) and credibility.
- **Cost disruption**: Starlight solar panels claim 90% cost reduction vs. traditional space solar.
- **First-mover on lunar ice**: Autonomous rover designed to establish the first American claim to lunar ice resources.

## Strategic Focus
- **Lunar testbed**: Use the Moon as a proving ground for Mars propellant production technology, leveraging lunar water ice.
- **City-scale infrastructure**: Scale from propellant production to energy grids, mining capacity, and life support for a self-sustaining Mars city.
- **Revenue diversification**: Selling Starlight solar panels and rover services to generate near-term revenue while pursuing long-term Mars goals.
- **Talent scaling**: Aggressively hiring to grow the engineering team (technical roles are 48% of workforce).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Startup environment with a bold mission (“build a city on Mars”). High ownership and fast iteration – interns are expected to do “whatever needs doing.”
- **Growth**: Company growing rapidly (+73.7% YoY headcount); opportunities for early employees to take on significant responsibility.
- **Technical depth**: Team includes alumni from SpaceX, Boston Dynamics, Anduril, Astrobotic – strong engineering culture.
- **Work location**: Hawthorne, CA (HQ) with additional office in Burlingame, CA. Onsite presence expected (manufacturing and testing require hands-on work).
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but startup equity and the chance to work on hardware that goes to the Moon and Mars.
- **Recent hiring signals**: Actively recruiting Technical Recruiter, software engineers, and rover engineers – indicating scaling phase.

## Sources
1. [starpath.space](https://www.starpath.space/)
2. [starpath.space/about](https://starpath.space/about/)
3. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/starpath-robotics)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/starpathspace)

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