# Satellite Operator

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. Satellite Operator As our Mission Operator, you will work closely with mission operations engineers, hardware engineers, and software engineers writing and executing standard operating procedures used to safely and reliably fly spacecraft on orbi

- **Id**: 437383
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/astranis-satellite-operator>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2024-04-25T21:17:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T08:50:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 928
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5077
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Life insurance, Retirement plans, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Communications, Satellite Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 171728
- **Name**: Astranis
- **Domain**: astranis.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/astranis>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 88
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.523
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 81
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 44
- **Max**: 49
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 98000

## Technologies

- **Git** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 928

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-06T07:11:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 3
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.121
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 928
- **Expected fill days**: 81
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 98000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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