The posting, in Astranis's own words
archived Oct 31, 2026Astranis 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 $1.2 billion from some of the world’s 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 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California, USA.
Radio Hardware Engineer
As a Radio Hardware Engineer at Astranis you will be responsible for the design, qualification, and test of our custom software defined radios. We're looking for people who are comfortable designing state of the art high speed hardware. If you think of signals in volts, bits, and dB's, this is the role for you! You will work closely with the RTL, Comms, and RF designs to help design the best possible radio systems for our payload and TTC systems.
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Role
Design and test ultra high speed digital data systems Work with state of the art FPGAs and data converters Design and lay out PCBs to implement these systems Test and validate full radio signal chain Integrate these systems into the spacecraft by working closely with the rest of the team Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team.
Requirements
B.S. or M.S. in electrical or computer engineering, or equivalent technical degree A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test hardware from scratch Experience with Altium or similar EDA tools Experience with high-density PCB design Strong analog/mixed-signal circuit design skills Experience designing high speed clock trees Comfortable working with full RF signal chain Don't meet them all? Not a problem. Please apply even if you do not meet all these criteria.