engineering
Posted Apr 9, 2024Senior Electrical Engineer
at Astranis
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and develop space and radiation tolerant and highly reliable electronics that will support the operation of our satellites
- Drive electronics design from concept development,
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of mechanical, thermal, software, RTL, RF, GNC, and manufacturing engineers to solve challenging problems and develop innovative and creative solutions
- Develop and maintain schedules and ensure that project stakeholders are regularly informed
Requirements
- B.S. or higher in electrical or computer engineering, or similar technical degree
- experience with fast-paced product design cycles
- experience designing hardware from concept through production.
- Demonstrated ability to design, build, and test hardware from scratch
- experience with designing and implementing signal conditioning, sensors, electro-mechanical actuators, power switches, embedded computers, or such hardware. •
- Experience with FPGAs, Microcontrollers, and communication schemes (RS-485, SPI, Ethernet, I2C) •
- Experience leading a team of engineers and working with teams in other disciplines.
- Strong understanding of computers and knowledge of C, C++, or Python
Experience
- 8+ years of professional
- 8+ years of board level
Benefits
- 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.
- Don't meet them all? Not a problem. Please apply even if you do not meet all these criteria. Bonus 5+ years of
- experience What we offer: All our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits.
- Base pay is just one component of Astranis’s total rewards package.
- Your compensation also includes a significant equity package via incentive stock options, high-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals.
- Astranis pay ranges are informed and defined through professional-grade salary surveys and compensation data sources.
- The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and the level and scope of the position.
- Base Salary $145,000 — $235,000 USD U.S.
Additional details
- 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.
- Senior Electrical Engineer As a senior electrical engineer on the Avionics team at Astranis you will be responsible for leading designs for the sub-systems that form the backbone of our satellites' internal communication, power distribution, sensor aggregation, and flight computer systems. You'll take ownership of the architecture for the avionics systems, drive discussions on key design trades, and work collaboratively with engineers across the organization to develop creative and innovative
- requirements gathering, architecture definition, component selection, schematic capture, layout, simulation, DFx, bringup, verification, and through to qualification
- Work closely with our CMs to ensure designs are manufacturable, built on-time, and meet Astranis’s quality and reliability needs
- Help build optimal processes for hardware development and collaboration across the company
- Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team. Requirements