Hardware Design Associate, Software Defined Radio Team (Fall 2026)

San Francisco, United StatesOn-site

Responsibilities

Design, simulate, implement, and test our internally developed software defined radio hardware
Write code to help evaluate performance and automate testing of satellite hardware
Integrate these systems into the spacecraft by working closely with the rest of the team Requirements

Associate Engineer positions typically last for twelve weeks, and are salaried roles designed for students who have already received a bachelor's degree (or who will have done so before working at Astranis).
Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test PCBA hardware from scratch (student design team projects, design competitions, personal projects)
Solid EE foundation in one or more of the following areas:
digital design (FPGAs, SOCs, SERDES, DDR, LVDS)
Experience with Altium Designer (or other PCB design software) •
Experience with analysis software (ADS, ANSYS, Matlab) •
Experience with Python or similar programming languages •
Experience with soldering and rework •

With five satellites on orbit and many more set to launch soon, the company is servicing a backlog of more than $1 billion of commercial contracts.
Astranis has raised over $750 million from some of the world’s best investors, from Andreessen Horowitz to Blackrock and Fidelity, and employs a team of 450 engineers and entrepreneurs.
RF design (Lineups, s-parameters, impedance matching) Bonus •
Experience with EE lab bench equipment (power supply, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, network analyzers, etc) The base salary for this position is $1,925 per week.
Base Salary $1,925 — $1,925 USD U.S.

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system.
Today, Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe— large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military.
Astranis is the preferred satellite communications partner for buyers with stringent
requirements for uptime, data security, network visibility, and customization.
Astranis designs, builds, and operates its satellites out of its 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California, USA.
As an Associate Engineer, you will have an amazing opportunity to work on hard problems — we pride ourselves on giving everyone at Astranis a chance to do meaningful work on challenging projects, and our Associate Engineers work on projects that are of equal importance and difficulty to the projects we give our full-time employees.
Many past Associate Engineers have designed and tested hardware/software that is heading to space on our first satellite, and many now work at Astranis full-time.
If you are still a college student, please apply to join us as an Intern. Role
Bringup and debug hardware in the lab with top of the line instruments and equipment
A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development