# Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer at Astranis

Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer at Astranis in San Francisco. On-site. Posted March 21, 2024.

- Company: Astranis
- Location: San Francisco
- Workplace: On-site
- Experience: 5+ years
- Posted: 2024-03-21
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/astranis/jobs/4350473006
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/senior-electrical-reliability-engineer-astranis-sc6dha

## Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, physics, materials science, or a related engineering field
- 5+ years of experience as a reliability or electrical engineer
- 4+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: physics of failure, 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

## Description

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 $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.

### 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 or electrical engineer

- 4+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: physics of failure, 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))
 
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