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Today Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe - large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military. \nWith 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.\nAstranis 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.\nSenior Harness Design Engineer\nAs 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.\nThis 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.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn harness architecture and design from concept and schematic capture through drawing packages and production release\nPerform the core electrical analysis behind reliable harnesses: wire sizing, voltage-drop budgets, protection and fuse coordination, derating, and connector/component selection\nDevelop and maintain schematics, harness drawings, wire lists, splice diagrams, and connector face views using the Zuken E3 suite\nDrive design-to-manufacturing through Zuken E3.HarnessBuilder, using automation to move cleanly from design intent to manufacturing outputs\nDefine and dimension controlled harness lengths, branch and breakout tolerances, and service-loop allowances on 2D drawings\nDefine routing intent, grounding and bonding strategy, and shielding architecture across LV, HV, and RF interconnects within tightly constrained spacecraft volumes\nAudit wire diagrams and harness topologies for accuracy against interface control documents (ICDs)\nSpecify physical protection and support for harnesses, including lacing, tying, convolute, and thermal/abrasion protection appropriate to the space environment.\nBuild, modify, and validate prototype and test harnesses\nSupport pre-launch integration and test operations on the ground, including on-vehicle harness routing, installation, and connection\nPartner across subsystems (avionics, power, propulsion, payload) and functions (production, environmental test, and vehicle test), since the harness interfaces with nearly every part of the spacecraft\nLead root-cause analysis and implement design improvements that enhance reliability, manufacturability, and serviceability\nCollaborate with manufacturing and harness suppliers on DFM/DFI feedback, assembly documentation, and process validation\nWhat you'll Need (Requirements)\nWe 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.\nDegree in electrical, mechatronics, or a related engineering field, or equivalent hands-on harness design experience\n7+ years of harness design experience, including 2 to 3 years at the system level, owning harness architecture across a vehicle rather than designing to someone else's spec\nZuken E3 proficiency, with strong hands-on command of E3.cable, E3.smallcable, and E3.HarnessBuilder for schematic capture and harness engineering\nStrong electrical fundamentals, including wire and cable selection (ampacity, voltage drop, insulation ratings, shielding, bundling), protection coordination, derating, and connector and terminal selection\nStandards fluency in IPC/WHMA-A-620 (Class 3) workmanship, plus NASA harness workmanship and connector selection and qualification practices\nDocumentation depth, able to generate complete harness packages (schematics, wire lists, connector face views, splice diagrams) and to dimension controlled lengths, branches, and service loops\nHands-on electrical test equipment experience, including harness and continuity testers (e.g., Cirris), digital multimeters, and oscilloscopes\nSpace-environment awareness, with a working understanding of how vacuum, thermal cycling, radiation, and launch vibration and shock drive harness and insulator design decisions\nMechanical literacy, comfortable working alongside mechanical and packaging teams on 3D routing feasibility, clamp and datum definition, and harness path\nNice to Have (Preferred)\nZuken E3.database librarian experience, having previously owned harness library and component-data governance (this is a role you can grow into)\nSpacecraft charging expertise, familiar with surface charging, internal and deep-dielectric charging (dielectric penetration), and their effects on wire insulation, connector dielectrics, and shielding, per references such as NASA-HDBK-4002 and ECSS-E-ST-20-06\nHV design for the space environment, including corona and Paschen-law behavior from ascent to vacuum, and E-field analysis for partial discharge in HV connector qualification and selection\nRF literacy, comfortable with shielded and coax interconnects, impedance control, and shielding effectiveness sufficient to design and route RF harnesses alongside RF engineers. Familiarity with space coax and connector specifications (e.g., NASA SSQ 21653, MIL-PRF-39012, GSFC S-311-P-718) is a plus\nTest and verification, including continuity, insulation resistance, dielectric withstanding voltage, bonding resistance, and TDR\n3D CAD proficiency in CATIA Electrical, SolidWorks, or 3DEXPERIENCE for harness routing and formboard work\nWhat we offer: \nAll our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits.\nBase 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.\nAstranis pay ranges are informed and defined through professional-grade salary surveys and compensation data sources. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and the level and scope of the position.\nBase Salary\n$135,000—$235,000 USD\nU.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required\n(To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States, or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3))\nOur mission and products are built for everyone, regardless of gender, race, creed, or background. 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