Jobs at Astrolab, Inc.

Design, analyze, test, and support flight hardware for lunar rover structures, mechanisms, and thermal systems. Responsibilities include defining component requirements, selecting flight hardware, developing vehicle integration flows, and creating qualification and acceptance test plans. The engineer will collaborate across teams and external test facilities to validate mechanical subsystems under lunar operational constraints.

Design, develop, test, and operate planetary rovers and related mechanical hardware. Own products throughout their lifecycle, from requirements definition through mission operations. Create models, drawings, analyses, test plans, reports, certification documentation, and operations plans. Develop engineering tools and best practices while collaborating with leadership and mentoring junior engineers, contractors, and interns.

Lead mechanical and structures engineering for planetary rovers and related lunar hardware. Responsibilities include defining design, analysis, and test practices; architecting mechanical and thermal platforms; developing engineering tools; managing priorities through program phases; leading designs from start to finish; and mentoring junior engineers, contractors, and interns.

Manage full-cycle recruiting across manufacturing, finance, operations, supply chain, and corporate functions. Responsibilities include sourcing passive candidates, building talent pipelines, conducting interviews, partnering with hiring managers, managing offers and onboarding coordination, maintaining ATS records, reporting recruiting metrics, promoting employer branding, ensuring OFCCP and employment-law compliance, and improving recruiting processes.

Design multilayer, high-speed, mixed-signal, and power PCBs while owning the Altium component library. Develop symbols, footprints, 3D models, layout standards, stackups, constraints, and manufacturing release processes. Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing teams on design integration, DFM/DFA, prototype feedback, and fabrication packages. Create documentation and training for Altium workflows, library governance, PCB layout, and PCBA releases.

Design, implement, and run Astrolab's internship program: partner with hiring managers and universities, coordinate recruiting/onboarding/offboarding, run orientation and events, track metrics, ensure OFCCP/compliance, and improve intern conversion.

Design and develop fabrication, assembly, integration, and test processes for flight-qualified rover structures, mechanisms, and subsystems. Lead DFx, standards development, non-conformance investigations, root-cause analysis, hands-on build and test activities, work instruction creation, and cross-functional project execution. Support supplier development, quality systems, configuration management, procurement, and production planning for lunar hardware and facility development.

Design and validate electromagnetic compatibility for spacecraft avionics and electro-mechanical systems. Responsibilities include defining EMI/EMC requirements, conducting electromagnetic analyses and design trades, troubleshooting issues, operating and automating test equipment, creating technical documentation, and supporting flight hardware qualification, spacecraft integration, and risk management.

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.

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

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.

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.

As a Loads and Dynamics Engineer, you will manage mechanical load definitions for planetary rovers, conduct load analyses, and support hardware testing, collaborating with engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle.