Mission Engineering Associate (Fall 2026)

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity's reach into the solar system.

As a Mission Engineering Associate, you will work on designing, creating, testing, and executing satellite operations procedures, including commissioning procedures and nominal operations procedures. You will investigate anomalies and work with the mission operations and engineering team to safely resolve them. You will participate in commanding activities of the company's first five operational spacecraft and help develop tools and processes to enable the Mission Operations team to maintain a high level of service uptime for customers.

Responsibilities:

• Work with mission engineers to design, create, test, and execute satellite operations procedures
• Investigate anomalies and work with the mission operations and engineering team to safely resolve them
• Participate in commanding activities of the company's first five operational spacecraft
• Help develop tools and processes to enable the Mission Operations team to maintain a high level of service uptime for customers
• Automate manual processes using scripting and software tools

Requirements:

• B.S. degree in an engineering, physics, or computer science related major
• Experience in scripting with Python
• Basic understanding of satellite systems
• Highly motivated, self-starting, and able to perform duties without supervision
• Passion for working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on development and testing

Bonus skills:

• Experience doing telemetry analysis and anomaly investigations
• Experience building operational software tools and user-friendly UIs
• Experience with software development tools such as Git

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