Hardware Design Associate, Software Defined Radio Team (Fall 2026)

Hardware Design Associate, Software Defined Radio Team (Fall 2026)

Associate Engineer positions typically last for twelve weeks, and are salaried roles designed for students who have already received a bachelor's degree (or who will have done so before working at Astranis).

As an Associate Engineer, you will have an amazing opportunity to work on hard problems — we pride ourselves on giving everyone at Astranis a chance to do meaningful work on challenging projects, and our Associate Engineers work on projects that are of equal importance and difficulty to the projects we give our full-time employees. Many past Associate Engineers have designed and tested hardware/software that is heading to space on our first satellite, and many now work at Astranis full-time.

If you are still a college student, please apply to join us as an Intern.

Role

Design, simulate, implement, and test our internally developed software defined radio hardware

Bringup and debug hardware in the lab with top of the line instruments and equipment

Write code to help evaluate performance and automate testing of satellite hardware

Integrate these systems into the spacecraft by working closely with the rest of the team

Requirements

A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development

Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test PCBA hardware from scratch (student design team projects, design competitions, personal projects)

Solid EE foundation in one or more of the following areas:

analog design (op amps, transistors, RLC filters)

digital design (FPGAs, SOCs, SERDES, DDR, LVDS)

mixed signal design (ADCs, DACs, power integrity)

RF design (Lineups, s-parameters, impedance matching)

Bonus

Experience building or using software defined radios

Experience with Altium Designer (or other PCB design software)

Experience with analysis software (ADS, ANSYS, Matlab)

Experience with Python or similar programming languages

Experience with soldering and rework

Experience with EE lab bench equipment (power supply, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, network analyzers, etc)

The base salary for this position is $1,925 per week.

Base Salary

$1,925—$1,925 USD