# Team Lead, Avionics - Vehicle Electronics at Astranis

> United States · Staff · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aastranis%3A4718057006 (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: 2026-09-30 (37 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/4718057006
- Skills listed (inferred): Python, C++

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $160k–$215k per year (from the listing's pay field)
- Market band for similar posted roles (SF Bay Area, n 789): p25 $177k, median $210k, p75 $250k

## 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.

### Team Lead, Avionics - Vehicle Electronics

As the Team Lead for the Avionics - Vehicle Electronics team, you will play a critical role in building and leading a team of engineers that own the compute, networking, and power distribution systems within our spacecraft. 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.

### Role

- Directly manage and grow a team of junior and senior electrical engineers
- Collaborate with a broad and multidisciplinary team to define the spacecraft compute, networking, and power distribution requirements and architectures
- Oversee the design, build, and implementation of our in-house hardware and systems
- Manage a detailed schedule to ensure that our hardware development is in sync with the overall program schedule
- Drive hardware design, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging
- Own the technical relationship with third-party component suppliers to ensure our vendors provide robust and performant solutions
- Support in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team
- Support the production and mission operations teams on the build and in-flight use of our component hardware
- Drive the growth of the avionics components team through recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-expanding team
### Requirements

- B.S. or higher in electrical or computer engineering, or similar technical degree
- 5+ years of professional experience with fast-paced product design cycles
- 5+ years of board level experience designing electronics hardware from concept through to production
- A passion for hardware development & fostering teamwork in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated ability to design, build, and test hardware, hands-on, from scratch
- Demonstrated ability to build and manage teams of engineers and communicate clearly with other disciplines
- Strong analog/mixed-signal circuit design skills
- US Citizenship or Green Card
### Bonus

- 5+ years of experience with designing and implementing signal conditioning, sensors, electro-mechanical actuators, power switches, embedded computers, or such hardware.
- Experience with FPGAs, Microcontrollers, and communication schemes (RS-485, SPI, Ethernet, I2C)
- Strong understanding of C, C++, or Python
- Radiation effects knowledge
- Environmental test experience
### 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.

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