# Senior Electrical Engineer- SDR Hardware

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $175,000-$240,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/astranis/jobs/4595934006
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e192d270-300

## Description

Job Title: Senior Electrical Engineer- SDR Hardware

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Electrical Engineer to join our team in San Francisco. As a software defined radio Hardware Engineer at Astranis, you will be responsible for the design, qualification, and test of our custom software defined radios.

Responsibilities:

- Work with state-of-the-art FPGAs

- Design and test high-speed digital SERDES interface

- Characterize and optimize wide-bandwidth data converter performance

- Identify devices that satisfy performance requirements

- Design and layout high-speed digital PCBs

- Test and validate full radio signal chain

- Work cross-functionally to integrate systems into different spacecrafts

Requirements:

- 5-10+ years of experience

- B.S. or M.S. in electrical or computer engineering, or equivalent technical degree

- Experience with digital communications theory and measurement

- Comfortable working with full RF signal chain

- Experience with RF test equipment (VNA, Spectrum analyzer, Signal generator)

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

- Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test hardware from scratch

- Experience with Altium or similar EDA tools

- Experience with PCB design

- Strong analog/mixed-signal circuit design skills

Bonus:

- Experience using state-of-the-art wideband programmable data converters

- Experience designing high-speed clock trees

- Experience designing systems for high reliability (Aerospace/defense or automotive)

- Familiarity with radio nonidealities (HD, IMD, IQ imbalance, gain ripple, group delay distortion)

- Experience with Python for measurement automation and data analysis

What we offer:

All our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits. Base pay is just one component of Astranis's total rewards package. Your compensation also includes a 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.

Astranis pay ranges are informed and defined through professional-grade salary surveys and compensation data sources. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and the level and scope of the position.

Base Salary: $175,000-$240,000 USD

U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required (To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States, or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3))

Our mission and our products are meant to connect the world and everyone in it, regardless of gender, race, creed, or any other distinction. We believe in a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we encourage all people to join our team and bring their unique perspective to help make us stronger.

## Skills

### Required
- FPGA
- digital SERDES interface
- wide-bandwidth data converter performance
- PCB design
- RF test equipment
- Altium
- Python