# Communications/DSP Associate Engineer (Summer 2026)

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: $1,925 per week
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/astranis/jobs/4619717006
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0da0fd05-ba0

## Description

Job Title: Communications/DSP Associate Engineer (Summer 2026)

Astranis is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Communications/DSP Associate Engineer to join our team for a 12-week internship. As a Communications/DSP Associate Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on hard problems and contribute to the design and development of custom software-defined radio hardware.

Responsibilities:

- Design signal processing for custom software-defined radio hardware (e.g., channelization, equalization, PA linearization, gain control, carrier synchronization, symbol mapping, framing, channel coding/FEC, etc.)

- Work closely with FPGA developers to implement and test the signal processing on radio hardware

- Model the end-to-end radio system from earth to space, and back

- Drive radio architecture trade studies, run link budgets, optimize the radio system for maximum performance for dozens of markets and use cases around the world

Requirements:

- A passion for working in a fast-paced environment and constantly learning

- Strong fundamentals in 'signals and systems' (basic transforms, filters, aliasing, analysis in both continuous and discrete domains, interpolation, decimation, etc.)

- Strong fundamentals in digital communications (modulation, coding, synchronization, fading, doppler, multiple access, channel capacity, etc.)

- Familiar with software development (some experience writing software for DSP, MCU, and/or FPGA, experience in one or more scripting languages)

- Familiar with analog concepts (amplifiers, analog filters, gain and delay variation, reflections, compression, etc.)

- Experience working with signal generator, signal analyzer, network analyzer, oscilloscope, etc.

- US Citizenship or Green Card

Bonus:

- Experience with software-defined radios

- Experience with Python

- Experience with GNU Radio

- Experience with FPGA development (and/or embedded C)

## Skills

### Required
- signal processing
- software-defined radio
- FPGA development
- digital communications
- analog concepts

### Nice to have
- Python
- GNU Radio
- embedded C