Senior Hardware/ Production Test Software Engineer
About the role
Senior Hardware/ Production Test Software Engineer at Astranis, focused on designing software architecture to support vehicle integration and test operations, developing automated testing, refining electrical specifications, and supporting development from proposal to flight.
Responsibilities
- Design high-level software architecture in support of vehicle integration and test operations
- Coordinate across multiple teams to create software testing infrastructure based on testing and production needs
- Work with ground software and flight software teams to integrate software into test infrastructure
- Design scalable test code to be reused across multiple different testing campaigns and vehicle generations
- Refine specifications from electrical engineers to validate critical flight components
- Support all phases of development from initial proposal development through successful test and flight
- Implement ground control and telemetry software
- Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team
Qualifications
- Bachelors, degree in CS, EE (or equivalent background knowledge)
- 5+ years total of relevant experience
- 2+ Experience with Python (or other high-level object oriented scripting language(s))
- 2+ Experience with Linux and shell command line tools
- 2+ Experience with version control systems (git, mercurial, svn, or others)
- A passion for building things, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience reading schematics and data sheets, debugging circuits that interface with embedded software, from debugger to logic analyzer to oscilloscope
Skills
Benefits
- Vaccination required for all employees (with reasonable accommodations available)
About Astranis
Advanced satellites for high orbits.
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.
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