Hardware Design Internship — SDR & Satellite Tech
Astranis
Requirements A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development
- Currently pursuing a 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)
- (Desirable) Experience building or using software defined radios
- (Desirable) Experience with Altium Designer (or other PCB design software)
- (Desirable) Experience with analysis software (ADS, ANSYS, Matlab)
- (Desirable) Experience with Python or similar programming languages
- (Desirable) Experience with soldering and rework
- (Desirable) Experience with EE lab bench equipment (power supply, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, network analyzers, etc)
- As an Intern, 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, no matter their seniority
- Many past interns have designed and tested hardware/software that is now flying on our first satellite, and many of them are now full-time employees at Astranis
- If you have already graduated from a four-year university, please apply to be an Associate Engineer
- 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
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