Flight Software Engineer
Job Overview
Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s 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 $750 million from some of the world’s best investors, from Andreessen Horowitz to Blackrock and Fidelity, and employs a team of 450 engineers and entrepreneurs. Astranis designs, builds, and operates its satellites out of its 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California, USA.
Flight Software Engineer
Role
- Implement spacecraft avionics software
- Implement ground control and telemetry software
- Implement software for automated testing at component, functional and system levels, including HITL (Hardware in the Loop) testing
- Implement low level software to interface with various spacecraft components
- Implement/troubleshoot/improve real time operating system components
- Support in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in CS, EE (or equivalent background knowledge)
- A passion for building things, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development
- Experience with C and/or C++
- Experience with Linux and shell command line tools
- Don't meet them all? Not a problem. Please apply even if you do not meet all these criteria.
Bonus
- Experience with designing real time systems
- Experience with building bare-metal embedded system software
- Experience with reading schematics and datasheets, debugging circuits that interface with embedded software, from debugger to logic analyzer to oscilloscope
- Experience with web development frameworks and databases
- Experience with test framework development, especially with HITL (Hardware in the Loop) systems
Base pay is just one component of Astranis’s total rewards package. Your compensation also includes a significant equity package via incentive stock options, high-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals.