Avionics Associate Engineer (Summer 2027) Verified today
About this role
Associate Engineer positions are twelve-week salaried roles for students who hold a bachelor's degree and plan to pursue a master's degree after their time at Astranis. You will work on projects of equal importance and difficulty to those assigned to full-time engineers. Many past Associate Engineers have designed and tested hardware and software now operating on Astranis satellites in orbit.
What you will do
- 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
Requirements
- Four-year degree in electrical or computer engineering, or equivalent technical degree
- Plans to pursue a graduate degree following your time at Astranis
- Interest in learning about, designing, and working with spacecraft systems and subsystems
- Passion for hardware development in a fast-paced, hands-on environment
- Experience with Python and/or C++
- Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test hardware from scratch
- US Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status
Bonus experience
- Altium Designer or other PCB design software
- SPICE-based simulators (LTSpice, PSPICE, ADS, etc)
- Soldering and rework
- Standard EE lab bench equipment (power supply, oscilloscope, multimeter)
- Switched mode converter design (boost and buck converters)
Compensation
Base salary: $1,925 per week.