# Senior Avionics Engineer

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $145,000-$235,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96372482

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## Description

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity's reach into the solar system.

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.

**Role**

- 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, requirements gathering, architecture definition, component selection, schematic capture, layout, simulation, DFx, bringup, verification, and through to qualification

- 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

- Work closely with our CMs to ensure designs are manufacturable, built on-time, and meet Astranis's quality and reliability needs

- Develop and maintain schedules and ensure that project stakeholders are regularly informed

- 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**

- B.S. or higher in electrical or computer engineering, or similar technical degree

- 5+ years of professional experience with fast-paced product design cycles

- 5+ years of board level experience designing hardware from concept through production.

- A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development

- Demonstrated ability to design, build, and test hardware from scratch

- Strong analog/mixed-signal circuit design skills

**Bonus**

- 5+ years of 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

- Radiation effects knowledge

- Environmental test experience

**What we offer**

- Base pay: $145,000-$235,000 USD

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- electrical engineering
- computer engineering
- hardware development
- analog/mixed-signal circuit design

### Nice to have
- FPGAs
- Microcontrollers
- communication schemes
- signal conditioning
- sensors
- electro-mechanical actuators
- power switches
- embedded computers
- radiation effects knowledge
- environmental test experience

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