Jobs at Astrolab, Inc.

Serve as a strategic People Operations partner to managers and employees, providing coaching, employee relations support, investigations, compliance guidance, and lifecycle management. Lead performance, onboarding, organizational scaling, and workplace culture initiatives while ensuring California employment law compliance. Improve HR policies, processes, systems, reporting, and employee engagement across technical, engineering, manufacturing, and operational teams.

Develop and test rover and ground-support power avionics hardware from initial design through flight. Responsibilities include power electronics architecture, PCBA requirements, Altium schematic capture and layout, circuit analysis, reliability studies, design verification and qualification testing, system integration, design reviews, and manufacturing and flight support.

Lead design, implementation, testing, and verification of navigation, localization, and perception systems for lunar rovers. Guide a small engineering team, integrate algorithms with flight software, devise and run hardware test campaigns in simulated/analog lunar environments, and ensure systems meet NASA human-rated requirements through validation and operations support.

The EMC Engineer ensures avionics components meet EMC standards for interplanetary missions. Responsibilities include design integration, troubleshooting EMI issues, and performing tests using specialized lab equipment.

The engineer will design, develop, analyze, and validate localization algorithms for rovers using various sensors and support flight software implementations and testing.

The FPGA Lead Engineer will develop and test avionics FPGA RTL designs for planetary rovers, lead architecture and verification processes, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure robust system interfacing and performance.

The Staff FPGA Engineer will lead the design, development, and verification of FPGA systems for planetary rovers, ensuring high reliability and flight readiness through collaboration with engineering teams.

The Principal FPGA Engineer will lead FPGA RTL development for rovers, oversee design verification, and collaborate with engineering teams on hardware and software interfaces.

The Staff Power Electrical Engineer designs and tests power avionics hardware for rovers, leading interdisciplinary reviews and ensuring reliability in dynamic environments.

Drive supplier performance and readiness by assessing processes, leading on-site development, resolving production and quality issues, supporting NPI and ramp activities, and partnering cross-functionally to mitigate supplier risks and improve manufacturing capability.

Lead development and execution of lunar mission operations: define ConOps, operational strategies, procedures, timelines, simulations, training, anomaly response, and real-time surface mission control to ensure safe, efficient rover missions.

Lead design, analysis, implementation, tuning, verification, and validation of robotic control systems for extra‑terrestrial rovers. Develop simulations, prototype controllers, testbeds, and supporting documentation. Integrate controllers with flight software and collaborate with avionics, integration, and test teams while mentoring junior engineers.

Design, implement, and harden enterprise and mission network infrastructure to NIST 800-171/53 standards; manage on-prem and Azure networking (Hub & Spoke, ExpressRoute, VPN), firewalls, wireless, automation (Ansible/Chef/Puppet), ensure low-latency telemetry/video for missions, troubleshoot and optimize performance, mentor junior engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and maintain architecture documentation and runbooks.

Design, simulate, analyze, tune, and verify control systems for extra‑terrestrial rovers (mobility, robotic arms, antenna pointing). Build and mature simulations, prototype controllers, support sensor/actuator selection, convert prototypes to flight code, and perform integrated hardware/software testing and calibration.

Translate engineering CAD into production-quality Class A surfaces and photorealistic visual assets. Create renders, composite imagery, and reusable assets for marketing while collaborating closely with industrial design, engineering, and marketing teams to ensure visual accuracy and brand alignment.

Lead end-to-end industrial design for lunar hardware, collaborating with engineering and marketing to translate technical constraints into cohesive product form. Own CMF strategy, rapid prototyping, and visualization using Blender, Adobe Creative Suite, and Alias. Ensure designs meet manufacturing, mass, thermal, and structural constraints while preserving brand identity across products.

Lead planning and execution of company events, photo and video productions. Translate creative concepts into detailed production plans, coordinate vendors, schedules, locations, equipment, travel, budgets, and on-site logistics. Serve as primary on-site production lead, manage post-event closeout, and develop repeatable production workflows and templates while collaborating cross-functionally.

Lead and oversee structures design, analysis, testing, and operation for planetary rovers. Define best practices, design mechanical/thermal architectures, build team tools, set priorities across program phases, and mentor and develop structures engineers.

As a Lead Loads and Dynamics Engineer, you'll develop methodologies for mechanical loads, define testing strategies, manage team progress, and mentor engineers in dynamic simulation.

As Marketing Lead, you'll create and execute campaign plans, manage digital presence across channels, and produce high-quality marketing content while collaborating cross-functionally.