Lead Electrical Engineer - Space Hardware & Equity

Astranis Space Technologies Corp.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

401(k)

Flexible PTO

Free on-site meals

Job summary

Astranis Space Technologies Corp. seeks an Electrical Engineering Team Lead to direct a growing group of engineers responsible for compute, networking, and power distribution on geo-synchronous spacecraft.

You will define architectures with a broad team, oversee in-house hardware, manage the program schedule, and mentor staff while expanding the avionics capabilities for future missions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical/computer engineering or similar.
• 5+ years in fast-paced product design cycles.
• 5+ years board-level electronics hardware design from concept to production.
• Hands-on hardware development experience from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage and grow a team of engineers.
• Collaborate across disciplines to define compute, networking, and power architectures.
• Oversee in‑house hardware development from design to implementation.
• Maintain hardware development schedules in sync with program timelines.
• Drive design, specs, selection, PCB layout, verification, bring-up and debugging.
• Own supplier relationships to ensure robust components.
• Assist recruiting and onboarding of new engineers.
• Support production and on‑orbit operations with hardware.
• Grow avionics team through hiring and mentoring.

Skills

Analog/mixed-signal design

Team leadership

Hardware design hands-on

C/C++/Python

Education

B.S. in electrical or computer engineering

Tools

FPGAs

Microcontrollers

RS-485

SPI

Ethernet

I2C

Job description

Astranis Space Technologies Corp. seeks an Electrical Engineering Team Lead to direct a growing group of engineers responsible for compute, networking, and power distribution on geo-synchronous spacecraft.

You will define architectures with a broad team, oversee in-house hardware, manage the program schedule, and mentor staff while expanding the avionics capabilities for future missions.