# Senior HITL Test Engineer

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000-$215,000 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.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated HITL Test Engineer to join our rapidly-growing team.

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testbeds that serve as the primary proving ground for every satellite we build and fly.

Responsibilities:

- Own the full lifecycle of flatsat and HITL testbed builds, from initial design and BOM development through hardware procurement and software bring-up

- Scope and design harnessing needs, coordinating with manufacturing to produce custom harnesses for flight-like hardware

- Serve on a rotating on-call point of contact for testbed health, triaging anomalies and managing access for other engineers

- Diagnose and resolve hardware and software failures on the testbed, spanning firmware interfaces, flight software, and physical components

- Drive testbed architecture decisions, including hardware allocation tradeoffs and risk mitigation for testbed contention

- Expand simulation capabilities as new satellite blocks come online, integrating motor emulators and deployment simulators

- Develop tooling to improve testbed observability, monitoring, and automated operations

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

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in EE, AE, CS (or equivalent background knowledge)

- 2-5+ years of experience in hardware integration, systems bring-up, or test engineering

- Comfort working across hardware and software, from rack assembly to debugging Python tracebacks

- Experience with embedded systems, EGSE, or laboratory hardware like logic analyzers and oscilloscopes

- 2+ years of experience with Python (or equivalent high-level scripting language) for test automation

- 1+ years of experience with Linux and shell command line tools

- 1+ years of experience with version control systems (git or equivalent)

- Experience reading schematics and debugging circuits that interface with embedded software

- Strong debugging instincts and a methodical approach to documenting novel failures

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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

What we offer:

- Base salary: $150,000-$215,000 USD

- Equity package via incentive stock options

- High-quality company-subsidized healthcare

- Disability and life insurance

- 401(k) retirement planning

- Flexible PTO

- Free on-site catered meals

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Linux
- embedded systems
- EGSE
- laboratory hardware
- version control systems
- hardware integration
- test engineering

### Nice to have
- flight software architectures
- telemetry systems
- simulation frameworks
- networked lab infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- Linux system administration

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