Senior Harness Design Engineer
Astranis · San Francisco ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Category
- Engineering design
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Visa sponsorship
- No
- Company size
- 501-1000
- Salary
- USD 135,000 – 235,000 / year
Astranis · San Francisco ·
Designs and engineers spacecraft wire harnesses for satellites, translating electrical architecture into flight-reliable systems using Zuken E3 and ensuring reliability through launch and geostationary orbit.
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.
As a Senior Harness Design Engineer at Astranis, you will own the design of the wire harnesses that keep our spacecraft alive on orbit, translating electrical architecture into manufacturable, flight-reliable harness designs built to survive launch and the full mission life in geostationary orbit. You will take harnesses from schematic capture through production release, working across low-voltage, high-voltage, and RF interconnects.
This is a multidisciplinary role built on electrical design depth. You'll bring strong command of harness and electrical design, literacy in the mechanical side of routing and packaging, and the technical range to partner across nearly every part of the vehicle, from avionics and power to propulsion, payload, production, and test. It's a senior seat for someone who owns problems end to end, drives reliability through root-cause analysis, and raises the bar on how flight harnesses get designed and built.
We think about this role as one discipline of depth and one of literacy: electrical design is the proficiency, mechanical is the literacy. The required qualifications reflect the electrical depth we can't teach on the job. The mechanical and space-physics skills are where we expect strong collaboration and room to grow.
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.
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