Astranis Space Technologies

Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer

Astranis Space Technologies · San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA $135K–$235K Posted 2026-11-03
Salary
$135K–$235K
Type
Full-time
Experience
5+ yr

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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Astranis Space Technologies

Astranis Space Technologies

Aerospace · Series E+ · San Francisco, USA

Stage & Valuation
Series E+ · $2.8B
Key Investors
Andreessen Horowitz, BAM Elevate, Snowpoint Ventures
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