Astranis
Team Lead, Avionics - Vehicle Electronics
$160K–$215K
San Francisco +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience with fast-paced product design cycles and 5+ years of board-level electronics 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 Avionics - Vehicle Electronics team and oversees spacecraft compute, networking, and power distribution hardware from requirements and design through production and mission operations.
What you'll do
- Manage and grow a team of electrical engineers; support recruiting, interviewing, and hiring.
- Define spacecraft hardware requirements and architectures, and oversee design, implementation, verification, and debugging.
- Coordinate hardware schedules and suppliers, and support production and mission operations.
What they ask for
- 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.
- Strong analog/mixed-signal circuit design skills; demonstrated hands-on hardware design, build, and test experience, and ability to build and manage engineering teams.
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 (RS-485, SPI, Ethernet, I2C), 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++
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