# Senior Software Engineer - Hardware Test

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**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 Hardware Test Engineer to join our rapidly-growing Software team.

In this role, you will be responsible for designing high-level software architecture to support vehicle integration and test operations.

Responsibilities:

- Design high-level software architecture in support of vehicle integration and test operations

- Coordinate across multiple teams to create software testing infrastructure based on testing and production needs

- Work with ground software and flight software teams to integrate software into test infrastructure

- Design scalable test code to be reused across multiple different testing campaigns and vehicle generations

- Refine specifications from electrical engineers to validate critical flight components

- Support all phases of development from initial proposal development through successful test and flight

- Implement ground control and telemetry software

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

Requirements:

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

- 5+ years total of relevant experience

- 2+ Experience with Python (or other high-level object-oriented scripting language(s))

- 2+ Experience with Linux and shell command line tools

- 2+ Experience with version control systems (git, mercurial, svn, or others)

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

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Experience reading schematics and data sheets, debugging circuits that interface with embedded software, from debugger to logic analyzer to oscilloscope

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
- version control systems
- CS
- EE

### Nice to have
- web development frameworks
- databases

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