<div class="content-intro">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.</div>Hardware Integration Test Engineer We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Hardware Integration Test Engineer to join our rapidly-growing team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testbeds that serve as the primary proving ground for every satellite we build and fly. You will collaborate with nearly every engineering team — Flight Software, Guidance Navigation & Control, Avionics, Power, Payload, and Mission Ops — to ensure our testbeds are flight-representative, reliable, and always ready to support testing. If it runs on a satellite, it gets proven on HITL first. Role <ul> <li>Own the full lifecycle of flatsat and HITL testbed builds, from initial design and BOM development through hardware procurement and software bring-up</li> <li>Scope and design harnessing needs, coordinating with manufacturing to produce custom harnesses for flight-like hardware</li> <li>Serve on a rotating on-call point of contact for testbed health, triaging anomalies and managing access for other engineers</li> <li>Diagnose and resolve hardware and software failures on the testbed, spanning firmware interfaces, flight software, and physical components</li> <li>Drive testbed architecture decisions, including hardware allocation tradeoffs and risk mitigation for testbed contention</li> <li>Expand simulation capabilities as new satellite blocks come online, integrating motor emulators and deployment simulators</li> <li>Develop tooling to improve testbed observability, monitoring, and automated operations</li> <li>Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team</li> </ul> Requirements <ul> <li>Bachelors degree in EE, AE, CS (or equivalent background knowledge)</li> <li>2-5+ years of experience in hardware integration, systems bring-up, or test engineering</li> <li>Comfort working across hardware and software, from rack assembly to debugging Python tracebacks</li> <li>Experience with embedded systems, proprietary test hardware, or laboratory hardware like logic analyzers and oscilloscopes</li> <li>2+ years of experience with Python (or equivalent high-level scripting language) for test automation</li> <li>1+ years of experience with Linux and shell command line tools</li> <li>1+ years of experience with version control systems (git or equivalent)</li> <li>Experience reading schematics and debugging circuits that interface with embedded software</li> <li>Strong debugging instincts and a methodical approach to docum

Hardware Integration Test Engineer

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