# Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer

**Astranis**

- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Workplace:** On-site
- **Salary:** $135K–$235K
- **Clearance:** None required
- **Eligibility:** US person or protected individual
- **Export control:** ITAR/EAR controlled
- **Visa:** Not specified
- **Discipline:** Engineering
- **Seniority:** Senior
- **Posted:** 2024-03-21

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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.

#### Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer

As Senior Reliability Engineer with Astranis, you will play a critical role in ensuring our spacecraft electronics and systems meet our reliability and availability needs. You’ll support the team in pushing the boundary of what is possible in a geo-synchronous spacecraft design and enable performance in space that has not been realized to date. You’ll ensure that Design for Reliability is at the forefront of our engineering processes.

#### **Role**

- Collaborate with a broad and multidisciplinary engineering team to ensure that our spacecraft will operate reliably over their entire mission duration

- Perform reliability and availability analysis using Reliability Block Diagrams and DFMEA

- Advise engineers on optimal redundancy architecture

- Support the engineering and production teams with design reviews, failure analysis and root cause analysis

- Plan and manage EEE component tests, defining reliability targets, sample sizes, and stress conditions for internal or external test labs

#### **Requirements**

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, physics, materials science, or a related engineering field

- 5+ years of experience as a reliability, component, or electrical engineer

- 4+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: physics of failure, semiconductor physics, design for reliability, functional safety, or accelerated testing

- Experience in electrical design, including components, circuits, PCBs, or electronic assemblies

- Experience in reliability statistics and data analysis

- Strong analytical skills and ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

**Bonus**

- Experience performing failure analysis and destructive physical analysis investigations to provide corrective actions and paths to closure

- Familiarity with manufacturing processes and testing methodologies for electronic components

- Knowledge of accelerated test profiles for component-level screening and qualification testing

**What we offer: **

All our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits.

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.

Astranis pay ranges are informed and defined through professional-grade salary surveys and compensation data sources. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and the level and scope of the position.Base Salary$135,000—$235,000 USD**U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required**
(To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States, or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3))

Our mission and our products are meant to connect the world and everyone in it, regardless of gender, race, creed, or any other distinction. We believe in a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we encourage all people to join our team and bring their unique perspective to help make us stronger.

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