# Software Defined Radio Hardware Associate (Winter 2027)

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: $1,925-$1,925 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 Software Defined Radio Hardware Associate (Winter 2027), you will have an amazing opportunity to work on hard problems , designing, simulating, implementing, and testing internally developed software defined radio hardware.

Responsibilities:

- Design, simulate, implement, and test our internally developed software defined radio hardware

- Bringup and debug hardware in the lab with top of the line instruments and equipment

- Write code to help evaluate performance and automate testing of satellite hardware

- Integrate these systems into the spacecraft by working closely with the rest of the team

Requirements:

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

- Currently pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

- Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test PCBA hardware from scratch (student design team projects, design competitions, personal projects)

- Solid EE foundation in one or more of the following areas: analog design (op amps, transistors, RLC filters), digital design (FPGAs, SOCs, SERDES, DDR, LVDS), mixed signal design (ADCs, DACs, power integrity), RF design (Lineups, s-parameters, impedance matching)

Bonus skills:

- Experience building or using software defined radios

- Experience with Altium Designer (or other PCB design software)

- Experience with analysis software (ADS, ANSYS, Matlab)

- Experience with Python or similar programming languages

- Experience with soldering and rework

- Experience with EE lab bench equipment (power supply, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, network analyzers, etc.)

The base salary for this position is $1,925 per week.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- hardware development
- PCB design
- analog design
- digital design
- mixed signal design
- RF design

### Nice to have
- software defined radios
- Altium Designer
- ADS
- ANSYS
- Matlab
- Python
- soldering and rework
- EE lab bench equipment

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