Communications/DSP Engineer — Intern (Spring 2025)

Communications/DSP Engineer — Intern 2025

Internships at Astranis typically last for twelve weeks, and are hourly roles designed for students who are currently enrolled at a four-year university. 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 heading to space 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.

Role

• Radio characterization test planning, automation and execution, for both lab and in orbit testing
• Communications related signal processing algorithm design and test
• Work closely with RF hardware, production, and software engineers on proving payload performance meets expectations
• Work closely with FPGA developers to implement and test the signal processing on radio hardware
• Run link budgets and optimize the radio system for maximum performance for different use cases around the world

Requirements

• A passion for working in a fast-paced environment and constantly learning
• Strong fundamentals in "signals and systems" (basic transforms, filters, aliasing, analysis in both continuous and discrete domains, interpolation, decimation, etc)
• Strong fundamentals in digital communications (modulation, coding, synchronization, fading, doppler, multiple access, channel capacity, etc)
• Familiar with software development (some experience writing software for DSP, MCU, and/or FPGA, experience in one or more scripting languages)
• Familiar with analog concepts (amplifiers, analog filters, gain and delay variation, reflections, compression, etc)
• Experience working with signal generator, signal analyzer, network analyzer, oscilloscope, etc
• US Citizenship or Green Card
• Don't meet them all? Not a problem. Please apply even if you do not meet all these criteria.

Bonus

• Experience with software defined radios
• Experience with Python
• Experience with GNU Radio
• Experience with FPGA development (and/or embedded C)