# Hardware Test Engineer

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $110,000-$176,000 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. Today, Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly sophisticated customers across the globe – large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military.

As a Hardware Test Engineer, you'll work across engineering disciplines to ensure our hardware meets the highest bar for quality and reliability. You'll own testing from concept through high-rate production, building test plans and systems that prove out designs, running labs that generate evidence, presenting results that drive key decisions, and following failures through to corrective action.

**Role**

- Work cross-functionally to define test requirements and choose test methods that cover the stresses hardware sees in its operating environment.

- Write and run qualification and validation test plans, including functional, thermal cycling, vibration, shock, TVAC, accelerated life, and HALT/HASS testing.

- Design, build, and automate test equipment, fixtures, and instrumentation end-to-end in Python, maximizing throughput to keep up with fast design cycles.

- Select, operate, and maintain environmental chambers, data acquisition systems, custom test racks, and measurement equipment.

- Write test procedures and reports, and present results clearly to stakeholders and leadership.

- Lead failure investigations and see corrective actions through to closure.

**Requirements**

- B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.

- 2+ years testing power electronics, avionics, or other high-reliability electronic hardware.

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

- Comfort with ambiguity and turning high-level requirements into clear design/test objectives.

- Experience with environmental chambers, automated test equipment, and test fixtures.

- Strong ability to read schematics and understand circuits.

- Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, DMMs, DAQs, power supplies, electronic loads, and SMUs.

- Experience with digital interfaces and protocols, such as CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, and Ethernet.

- Proficiency in Python for test automation and data analysis.

- Strong technical writing, including test plans, reports, requirements, and specifications.

**Bonus**

- High voltage testing experience.

- Vacuum or TVAC testing experience.

- Knowledge of electronics reliability and failure mechanisms.

- Familiarity with ASTM, JEDEC, IEEE, ISO, and MIL test standards.

- Familiarity with HITL/SITL testing, Linux, and SQL.

**What we offer**

- Base pay: $110,000-$176,000 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.

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Physics
- Environmental Chambers
- Automated Test Equipment
- Test Fixtures
- Oscilloscopes
- DMMs
- DAQs
- Power Supplies
- Electronic Loads
- SMUs
- CAN
- SPI
- I2C
- UART
- Ethernet

### Nice to have
- High Voltage Testing
- Vacuum or TVAC Testing
- Electronics Reliability
- Failure Mechanisms
- ASTM
- JEDEC
- IEEE
- ISO
- MIL Test Standards
- HITL/SITL Testing
- Linux
- SQL

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