Astranis
Electrical Engineering Team Lead
$160K–$215K
San Francisco +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years in fast-paced product design cycles; 5+ years of board-level hardware design from concept through production.
- Education
- B.S. or higher in electrical or computer engineering, or similar technical degree.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required.
About the job
Leads the electrical engineering team responsible for spacecraft compute, networking, and power distribution hardware, from architecture and design through production and mission operations.
What you'll do
- Manage and grow the electrical engineering team, including recruiting and hiring.
- Define spacecraft hardware requirements and architectures; oversee design, implementation, verification, bring-up, and debugging.
- Coordinate hardware development schedules and supplier relationships, and support production and mission operations.
What they ask for
- B.S. or higher in electrical or computer engineering, or a similar technical degree.
- 5+ years of professional experience with fast-paced product design cycles and 5+ years of board-level electronics hardware design from concept through production.
- Hands-on ability to design, build, and test hardware; strong analog/mixed-signal circuit design skills.
- Ability to build and manage engineering teams and communicate across disciplines; U.S. citizenship or Green Card.
Nice to have
- 5+ years designing and implementing signal conditioning, sensors, electro-mechanical actuators, power switches, embedded computers, or similar hardware.
- Experience with FPGAs, Microcontrollers, communication schemes, C, C++, or Python; radiation effects knowledge or environmental test experience.
Pay
$160,000 — $215,000 USD base salary
Tools
FPGAs, Microcontrollers, RS-485, SPI, Ethernet, I2C, C, C++, Python
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