HITL Test Engineer

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits expanding humanitys 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 worlds 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 153000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California USA.

HITL Test Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated HITL Test Engineer to join our rapidly-growing this role you will be responsible for designing building and maintaining the hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testbeds that serve as the primary proving ground for every satellite we build and fly. You will collaborate with nearly every engineering team Flight Software Guidance Navigation & Control Avionics Power Payload and Mission Ops to ensure our testbeds are flight-representative reliable and always ready to support testing. If it runs on a satellite it gets proven on HITL first.

Role

• Own the full lifecycle of flatsat and HITL testbed builds from initial design and BOM development through hardware procurement and software bring-up
• Scope and design harnessing needs coordinating with manufacturing to produce custom harnesses for flight-like hardware
• Serve on a rotating on-call point of contact for testbed health triaging anomalies and managing access for other engineers
• Diagnose and resolve hardware and software failures on the testbed spanning firmware interfaces flight software and physical components
• Drive testbed architecture decisions including hardware allocation tradeoffs and risk mitigation for testbed contention
• Expand simulation capabilities as new satellite blocks come online integrating motor emulators and deployment simulators
• Develop tooling to improve testbed observability monitoring and automated operations
• Assist in recruiting interviewing and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in EE AE CS (or equivalent background knowledge)
• 2-5 years of experience in hardware integration systems bring-up or test engineering
• Comfort working across hardware and software from rack assembly to debugging Python tracebacks
• Experience with embedded systems proprietary test hardware or laboratory hardware like logic analyzers and oscilloscopes
• 2 years of experience with Python (or equivalent high-level scripting language) for test automation
• 1 years of experience with Linux and shell command line tools
• 1 years of experience with version control systems (git or equivalent)
• Experience reading schematics and debugging circuits that interface with embedded software
• Strong debugging instincts and a methodical approach to documenting novel failures
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A passion for building things including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on development

Bonus

• Familiarity with flight software architectures telemetry systems or simulation frameworks
• Prior experience with networked lab infrastructure Kubernetes or Linux system administration
• Please apply even if you do not meet every single criterion listed above

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