Hardware Design Intern, Software Defined Radio Team – Software Defined Radio

Job Description

Hardware Design Intern, Software Defined Radio Team (Summer 2026) | Astranis Space Technologies

The Tone:
This is an internship at Astranis Space Technologies, located in Northern California, USA. Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system by providing dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers. The company employs a team of 450 engineers and entrepreneurs who design, build, and operate satellites. This role provides an opportunity to contribute meaningful work on challenging projects, with past interns designing hardware/software now flying on their first satellite.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Temporary, Hourly
• Location: In-person, Northern California, USA
• Pay: $29 hourly
• Team: Software Defined Radio Team
• Mission: This person will contribute to the design, implementation, and testing of satellite software defined radio hardware.
• Tech Stack: Altium Designer, ADS, ANSYS, Matlab, Python

What You’ll Actually Do
• Design: Design, simulate, implement, and test internally developed software defined radio hardware.
• Debug: Bringup and debug hardware in the lab with top of the line instruments and equipment.
• Automate: Write code to help evaluate performance and automate testing of satellite hardware.
• Integrate: Integrate these systems into the spacecraft by working closely with the rest of the team.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Currently pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience: Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test PCBA hardware from scratch through student design team projects, design competitions, or personal projects.
• Skills: Solid Electrical Engineering 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).
• Bonus: Experience building or using software defined radios; experience with Altium Designer (or other PCB design software); experience with analysis software (ADS, ANSYS, Matlab); experience with Python or similar programming languages; experience with soldering and rework; experience with Electrical Engineering lab bench equipment (power supply, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, network analyzers, etc).