# Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer at Astranis

> United States · Senior · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aastranis%3A4350473006 (read 2026-11-06).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Astranis](https://alderhq.app/companies/astranis)
- Location text: San Francisco; San Francisco
- Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: San Francisco; San Francisco")
- Posted: 2024-03-21 (959 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/astranis/jobs/4350473006

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $135k–$235k per year (from the listing's pay field)
- Market band for similar posted roles (SF Bay Area, n 1027): p25 $182k, median $205k, p75 $229k

## Description (the employer's text)

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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