Avionics Associate Engineer (Summer 2027)

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits expanding humanitys 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.

With five satellites on orbit and many more set to launch soon the company is servicing a backlog of more than $1 billion of commercial contracts. Astranis is the preferred satellite communications partner for buyers with stringent requirements for uptime data security network visibility and customization.

Astranis has raised over $1.2 billion from some of the worlds best investors including Andreessen Horowitz Baillie Gifford Blackrock Fidelity Franklin Templeton and Snowpoint and employs a team of 500 engineers and entrepreneurs. Astranis designs builds and operates its satellites out of its 153000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California USA.

Associate Engineer positions typically last for twelve weeks and are salaried roles designed for students who have already received a bachelors degree and plan to return to receive their Masters following their Associate role at Astranis.

As an Associate Engineer you will have an amazing opportunity to work on hard problems we pride ourselves on giving everyone at Astranis a chance to do meaningful work on challenging projects and our Associate Engineers work on projects that are of equal importance and difficulty to the projects we give our full-time employees. Many past Associate Engineers have designed and tested hardware/software that is heading to space on our first satellite and many now work at Astranis full-time.

If you are still a college student please apply to join us as an Intern.

• Work with the avionics engineering team to build and test flight hardware
• Design test equipment to validate designs across a wide range of stressed conditions
• Bring up and debug designs in the lab
• Write code to help evaluate performance and automate testing of satellite hardware
• Assist with low level software to interface with various spacecraft subsystems

• Have a four-year degree in electrical or computer engineering (or equivalent technical degree) with plans to pursue a graduate degree following your time at Astranis.
• Interest in learning about designing and working with various spacecraft systems and subsystems
• A passion for hardware development including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development
• Experience with Python and/or C
• Demonstrated ability to personally design build and test hardware from scratch
• US Citizenship or Green Card
• Dont meet them all Not a problem. Please apply even if you do not meet all these criteria.

• Experience with Altium Designer (or other PCB design software)
• Experience with SPICE-based simulators (LTSpice PSPICE ADS etc)
• Comfortable with soldering and rework
• Familiarity with standard EE lab bench (power supply oscilloscope multimeter etc)
• Familiarity with basic switched mode converter design (boost and buck converters)

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