Reliability Design Team Lead
Astranis
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, builds, and operates its satellites out of its 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California, USA.
Reliability Design Team Lead
As the Team Lead for the Reliability Design Team, you will play a critical role in building and leading a team of reliability and component engineers to ensure our spacecraft electronics and systems meet our quality, 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 and in particular ensure that Design for Reliability is at the forefront of our engineering processes.
Role
- Directly manage, mentor and grow a team of reliability and component engineers
- Collaborate with a broad and multidisciplinary engineering team to ensure that our spacecraft will operate reliably over their entire mission duration
- Develop and own Astranis's approved EEE parts list and our qualification and screening and processes for flight parts
- Support the engineering, production and mission operations teams with failure analysis and root cause analysis expertise
- Drive the growth of the power team through recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-expanding team
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, physics, materials science, or a related engineering field.
- 8+ years of experience as a component, reliability, or electrical engineer.
- 4+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: semiconductor physics, physics of failure, accelerated testing, design for reliability
Bonus
- Knowledge of accelerated test profiles for component-level screening and qualification testing
- Understanding of HALT/HASS test profiles and reliability assessments
- Knowledge of supplier quality processes: production part approval process, advanced product quality planning, first article inspection reports, product lifecycle management systems, etc.
- Experience performing failure analysis and destructive physical analysis investigations to provide corrective actions and paths to closure
- Experience maintaining source control documentations for EEE components
- Experience gathering and interpreting PPAP documentation for EEE components
