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$145,000 – $195,000
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What this role is
Astranis seeks a senior quality engineer to oversee manufacturing excellence for satellite hardware, ensuring components meet aerospace standards through inspection, testing, and process improvement. This role suits experienced quality professionals from electronics or mechanical manufacturing who want hands-on responsibility scaling production for high-reliability space systems.
Our summary, not Astranis’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Altium Designer
- Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
- Python
- Root Cause Analysis
- SolidWorks
- SQL
- Statistical Process Control (SPC)
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What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's degree in science or engineering
- 6+ years in quality or manufacturing engineering (or 3+ years with MS/PhD)
- Inspection techniques and electronics troubleshooting
- GD&T proficiency
- Experience with CAD, PLM, or ERP systems
- Python or SQL for data analysis
- Root cause analysis and quality tools
- Cross-functional communication
- Process validation and control methods
- Hands-on manufacturing process qualification for electronics or mechanical assemblies
- First-article inspection review and implementation
Nice to have
- Spaceflight hardware design and manufacturing knowledge
- High-impact project ownership and quality systems deployment
- Leading production containments for manufacturing defects
- Advanced SQL and Python skills with data visualization tools