# Propulsion Test Team Lead

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000-$195,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/astranis/jobs/4617625006
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## Description

As our Propulsion Test Team Lead, you will be responsible for testing & fueling our propulsion systems. You will lead, and continue building, a team of world-class propulsion test engineers and technicians.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading a team of Propulsion test engineers and technicians that test satellite propulsion systems, including hiring and managing direct reports.

- Creating and enforcing quality standards and processes to ensure proper verification of unit-level and system-level hardware.

- Evaluating non-conformances to determine root cause and create corrective action plans and system improvements.

- Managing day-to-day activities of propulsion test, including creating processes for assigning and tracking work across production & development testing programs.

- Creating and enforcing a culture of safety and quality throughout the workplace.

- Evaluating proposed designs for testability and work closely with design engineering teams on new designs and processes to enable factory output growth targets up to 24 vehicles per year.

- Creating, maintaining and communicating detailed schedules, ensuring your team and other stakeholders are aware of tasks and deadlines, including resource identification and acquisition.

- Owning the test infrastructure needed to test our current and next generation propulsion system, including factor layout, safety equipment, and test beds.

- Working hands-on with flight hardware alongside your team to ensure mission success.

- Developing ironbirds (test beds) for doing flight-like development and qualification testing.

## Skills

### Required
- Bachelor's degree in aerospace or mechanical engineering
- 5+ years of professional experience in a hardware manufacturing or production environment (aerospace preferred)
- Demonstrated ability to manage a lab and/or production facilities, equipment, and operations
- Proven leadership through project management, mentorship, or people management experience
- Hands-on experience working with fluid or gas feed systems
- Ability to use ERP/MES systems for creating procedures, tracking hardware ad builds, and enforcing quality processes
- Strong communication (written and verbal), organizational skills, and attention to detail
- Strong fluid systems engineering intuition and critical thinking

### Nice to have
- Direct management experience of engineers or technicians
- Experience with fluid and gas system component design
- Experience designing & maintaining test infrastructure
- Specific experience with low thrust monopropellant, green monopropellant, and electric propulsion systems
- Experience in spacecraft fueling and launch operations
- Familiarity with AFSPCMAN 91-710 and other Range Safety documentation and requirements