Manufacturing Specialist, PCBA

Astranis • San Francisco, CA

2d • $49 - $65 • Onsite

About The Position

At Astranis, you’ll operate in a fast-paced environment supporting the build of all PCBAs required for satellite production. The team emphasizes quality, manufacturability, and throughput, so this role will play a key part in advancing and maturing our PCBA manufacturing capabilities.

Requirements

• Associate or bachelors degree in engineering or manufacturing
• 4+ years of experience working hands-on in a production environment as a technician in the aerospace, automotive, or similar industries
• Demonstratable soldering skills
• Direct experience operating SMT equipment
• Excellent attention to detail
• Must be onsite 5 days a week

Nice To Haves

• IPC610 certification
• J-STD-001 certification
• Experience working in a clean room environment
• Experience working with electrical schematics and PCB design files, especially in Altium
• Experience working with EE bench test equipment (power supplies, multimeters)
• Advanced soldering and rework skills (BGA or similar high density packages)

Responsibilities

• Assist with first pass DFM reviews, helping the teams drive towards designs that are manufacturable
• Perform physical reworks and repairs as non-conformances arise
• Perform secondary processing for components to prepare them for assembly
• Obsess about material movement, board status and throughput, ultimately shepherding boards from entry to to exit
• Perform incoming and outgoing inspection per IPC-610 Class 2/3 standards
• Triage non-conforming hardware and work with the quality team to surface corrective and preventative actions
• Be a system and documentation champion: specifically reviewing MES dashboards, producing metrics, writing up accurate non-conformance reports

Benefits

• All our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits.
• Base pay is a single component of Astranis's total rewards package, which may also include equity in the form of incentive stock options, high quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance benefits, flexible PTO, 401(K) retirement, and free on-site catered meals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees