Senior Satellite Operations Engineer - Equity + PTO

Astranis Space Technologies Corp.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Free on-site meals

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Astranis Space Technologies Corp. is seeking a Senior Mission Operations Engineer to work closely with hardware teams, design operational procedures, and safely operate our satellites.

You will support engineering for commissioning, automate manual processes, investigate telemetry anomalies, and develop tools to maintain high uptime for our customers.

This role emphasizes hands-on development in a fast-paced environment, with opportunities to contribute to scaling the mission operations team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience working in satellite operations.
• Experience scripting in any language - Python preferred.
• Experience doing telemetry analysis and anomaly investigation.
• Experience designing and executing satellite operations.
• Basic understanding of satellite subsystems (hardware and software).
• Highly motivated, self-starting, committed, and able to perform duties without supervision.
• A passion for working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on development and testing.
• Don't meet them all? Not a problem. Please apply even if you do not meet all these criteria.

Responsibilities

• Play a large role in the design and development of our satellite operations system and team.
• Support satellite engineers to design, create, test, and execute satellite operations procedures, including commissioning procedures and nominal operations procedures.
• Investigate anomalies and work with the mission operations and engineering team to safely resolve them.
• Automate manual processes using scripting and software tools.
• Work with our ground software team as the user and requirements owner for tools that will help us operate our fleet of satellites.
• Responsible for commanding activities during the launch and commissioning of our first production satellite.
• Develop tools and processes to enable the Mission Operations team to maintain a high level of service uptime for our customer.
• Support in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team.

Skills

Satellite operations

Scripting (Python)

Telemetry analysis

Anomaly investigation

Operations design

Subsystem knowledge

Self-motivated

Hands-on development

Tools

Git

Phabricator

Job description

Astranis Space Technologies Corp. is seeking a Senior Mission Operations Engineer to work closely with hardware teams, design operational procedures, and safely operate our satellites.

You will support engineering for commissioning, automate manual processes, investigate telemetry anomalies, and develop tools to maintain high uptime for our customers.

This role emphasizes hands-on development in a fast-paced environment, with opportunities to contribute to scaling the mission operations team.