# Avionics Components Team Lead

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000-$210,000 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 the Team Lead for the Avionics Components Engineering Team, you will play a critical role in building and leading a team of engineers that own the sensor and actuator components within our avionics systems.

**Responsibilities**

- Directly manage and grow a team of junior and senior electrical engineers

- Collaborate with a broad and multidisciplinary team to define the spacecraft sensor and actuator requirements and architectures

- Oversee the design, build, and implementation of our in-house component hardware and systems

- Manage a detailed schedule to ensure that our hardware development is in sync with the overall program schedule

- Drive hardware design, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging

- Own the technical relationship with third-party component suppliers to ensure our vendors provide robust and performant solutions

- Support in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team

- Support the production and mission operations teams on the build and in-flight use of our component hardware

- Drive the growth of the avionics components team through recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-expanding 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 electronics hardware from concept through to production

- A passion for hardware development & fostering teamwork in a fast-paced environment

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

- Demonstrated ability to build and manage teams of engineers and communicate clearly with other disciplines

- Strong analog/mixed-signal circuit design skills

- US Citizenship or Green Card

**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)

- Strong understanding of C, C++, or Python

- Radiation effects knowledge

- Environmental test experience

**What we offer**

- Base salary: $160,000-$210,000 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
- team management

### Nice to have
- FPGAs
- Microcontrollers
- communication schemes
- C
- C++
- Python
- radiation effects knowledge
- environmental test experience

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