Mission Engineering Associate

Responsibilities

• Work with mission engineers to design, create, test, and execute satellite operations procedures, including commissioning and nominal operations.
• Investigate anomalies and collaborate with mission operations and engineering teams to resolve them safely.
• Participate in commanding activities for the company's first five operational spacecraft.
• Develop tools and processes to help the Mission Operations team maintain high service uptime.
• Automate manual processes using scripting and software tools.

Requirements

• B.S. degree in engineering, physics, or a computer science related major.
• Experience in scripting with Python.
• Basic understanding of satellite systems.
• Highly motivated, self-starting, and able to perform duties without supervision.
• U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience performing telemetry analysis and anomaly investigations.
• Experience building operational software tools and user-friendly UIs.
• Experience with software development tools such as Git.

Benefits

• Twelve-week salaried associate role.
• Base salary of $1,925 per week.
• Opportunity to work on meaningful, complex projects of equal importance to full-time employees.

About the Company

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. We provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe, including large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military. Based in Northern California, we design, build, and operate our satellites from our 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters.