Astranis
Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer
3d ago
USASeniorreliability engineeringelectrical engineering
Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer ensuring spacecraft electronics and systems meet reliability and availability needs.
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
Nice to have
- 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
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- 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.
Other
- 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 $750 million from some of the world’s best investors, from Andreessen Horowitz to Blackrock and Fidelity, and employs a team of 450 engineers and entrepreneurs. Astranis designs, buil
- 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.
- 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