Avionics - Vehicle Components Team Lead Verified today

About Astranis

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, delivering dedicated secure networks to enterprises, governments, and the US military. With five satellites on orbit and a backlog exceeding $1 billion in commercial contracts, Astranis is expanding rapidly from its San Francisco headquarters.

Role

As Team Lead for Avionics - Vehicle Electronics Engineering, you will directly manage and grow a team of junior and senior electrical engineers. You own the compute, networking, and power distribution systems within our spacecraft and will push the boundary of what is possible in geostationary spacecraft design.

Your responsibilities include:

• Directly manage and grow a team of junior and senior electrical engineers
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define spacecraft compute, networking, and power distribution requirements and architectures
• Oversee the design, build, and implementation of in-house hardware and systems
• Manage detailed schedules to keep hardware development in sync with overall program schedule
• Drive hardware design, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging
• Own technical relationships with third-party component suppliers to ensure robust and performant solutions
• Support production and mission operations teams on build and in-flight use of component hardware
• Support recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional team members

Requirements

• B.S. or higher in electrical or computer engineering, or similar technical degree
• 5+ years of professional experience with fast-paced product design cycles
• 5+ years of board-level experience designing electronics hardware from concept through production
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and test hardware hands-on from scratch
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage teams of engineers and communicate clearly with other disciplines
• Strong analog and mixed-signal circuit design skills
• US citizenship or Green Card required (space technology export regulations)

Bonus Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing signal conditioning, sensors, electro-mechanical actuators, power switches, or embedded computers
• Experience with FPGAs, microcontrollers, and communication schemes (RS-485, SPI, Ethernet, I2C)
• Strong understanding of C, C++, or Python
• Radiation effects knowledge
• Environmental test experience

Compensation

Base salary: $160,000-$210,000 USD

Total rewards package includes equity via incentive stock options, company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and on-site catered meals.