Team Lead, Avionics - Vehicle Electronics

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s 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 world’s 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 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California, USA.

Team Lead, Avionics - Vehicle Electronics

As the Team Lead for the Avionics - Vehicle Electronics team, you will play a critical role in building and leading a team of engineers that own the compute, networking, and power distribution systems within our spacecraft. You’ll support the team in pushing the boundary of what is possible in a geo-synchronous spacecraft design and enable performance in space that has not been realized to date.

• Directly manage and grow a team of junior and senior electrical engineers

• Collaborate with a broad and multidisciplinary team to define the spacecraft compute, networking, and power distribution requirements and architectures

• Oversee the design, build, and implementation of our in-house hardware and systems

• Manage a detailed schedule to ensure that our hardware development is in sync with the overall program schedule

• Drive hardware design, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging

• Own the technical relationship with third-party component suppliers to ensure our vendors provide robust and performant solutions

• Support in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team

• Support the production and mission operations teams on the build and in-flight use of our component hardware

• Drive the growth of the avionics components team through recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-expanding team

• 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 to production

• A passion for hardware development & fostering teamwork in a fast-paced environment

• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and test hardware, hands-on, from scratch

• Demonstrated ability to build and manage teams of engineers and communicate clearly