Ground Software Engineer — Intern 

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

• Design high-performance, reliable, mission-critical software that sends commands to space!
• Work with the engineering team to design, build, and implement new ground software systems to improve how we command and monitor Astranis spacecrafts
• This position is for 12 weeks

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree
• Proficiency with Python
• Proficiency with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, …)
• Demonstrated ability to personally design, write, and test software from scratch
• US Citizenship or Green Card
• 40 hours per week minimum
• Must be onsite in San Francisco 5 days a week 
• Don’t meet them all? Not a problem. Please apply even if you do not meet all these criteria.

Bonus

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with message queues / log streaming (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Kinesis, …)