Market Access Manager 

As our Market Access Manager, you will drive Astranis's market access efforts outside of the United States. Astranis is growing the number of satellites it launches each year, and needs a talented market access manager to keep pace with acquiring the necessary authorizations for these satellites to operate in countless countries around the world. You will lead the team obtaining and maintaining market access and landing rights authorizations. You will also engage in regulatory processes to modify national regulatory regimes to facilitate future market access for Astranis satellites. 

Role 

• Develop in-depth understanding of regulatory and market access frameworks where Astranis does business
• Engage directly with national regulatory authorities and foster strong relationships
• Obtain new licenses/authorizations for satellites and earth stations and maintain existing ones
• Prepare documentation in support of the license/authorization application process, pulling information from teams across Astranis
• Influence and optimize the domestic/regional regulatory frameworks to support business objectives and market expansion
• Leverage satellite industry organizations to ease market access/landing rights requirements in key markets
• Provide regulatory support to the commercial team for market access in the region
• Represent Astranis in relevant regional meetings and international forums (e.g. ITU related meetings) to promote Astranis's interests 

Requirements

• At least 7 years' experience in Market Access, Government Relations, Public Policy or Advocacy for Satellite Communications. Other experience levels considered.
• Degree in law, engineering, public policy or any relevant technical subject
• Masters degree is an asset
• Strong technical, regulatory research and analysis skills
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written skills in English and (ideally) a second language
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to exercise judgment and make sound decisions to drive processes to conclusion
• Self-starter with good organizational skills and the ability to work independently
• Effective management and advancement of multiple projects simultaneously

Senior Spectrum Engineer

As our Senior Spectrum Engineer, you will be the primary technical owner of Astranis's GSO network coordination efforts. Astranis maintains a large portfolio of GSO orbital slots around the world, and is constantly searching and filing for additional orbital slots to serve new customer geographies. You will own the coordination of these filings with other operators around the world, which will require running detailed coordination analyses with both GSO and NGSO systems, and Astranis's related filings for Astranis's global network of ground stations. 

You have relevant experience in satellite spectrum coordination and interference analysis, and are ambitious to help build and maintain the world's largest portfolio of GSO orbital slot filings.

Role

• Manage Astranis's technical coordination efforts across its portfolio of GSO orbital slots
• Develop Astranis’s orbital portfolio by identifying new opportunities for spectrum rights at GSO orbital slots
• Prepare ITU filings and manage Astranis’s ITU filing portfolio
• Ensure timely, professional, and technically sound communications with external coordination partners
• Ensure Astranis's global network of ground stations remains in good regulatory standing 
• Run detailed interference analyses for GSO-GSO and GSO-NGSO using Visualyse or similar tools
• Build a robust process for proactively, and quickly, reaching out to coordination partners and responding to coordination requests
• Coordinate across Astranis internal teams to ensure buy-in across executive, sales, and networking teams
• Prepare technical filings (e.g., FCC Schedules S) for market access or licenses to operate as needed
• Develop technical analyses for FCC proceedings
• Support Astranis ITU engagement through developing positions, analyses and input documents to ITU fora and regional preparatory meetings
• Represent Astranis at ITU and regional preparatory meetings as needed 

Requirements

• Confident running and interpreting interference studies for coordination purposes (GSO-GSO and ideally GSO-NGSO as well)
• Experience using Visualyse, MATLAB, STK or an equivalent tool
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• Solid industry knowledge of what other operators are doing and the current lay of the land with the industry & coordination
• Engineering Bachelor’s (preferred electrical/communications)
• 5+ years regulatory experience in satellite spectrum matters.
• Knows their way around an IFIC
• Experience using ITU software to generate orbital slot filings

Spectrum Engineer

As an Astranis Spectrum Engineer, you will help the Spectrum team maintain a large portfolio of GSO orbital slots around the world. We are also constantly searching and filing for additional orbital slots to serve new customer geographies. Your role will require running detailed coordination analyses with both GSO and NGSO systems, and related analyses  for Astranis's global network of ground stations. 

Ideally, you have relevant experience in satellite spectrum coordination and interference analysis — or at least strong RF fundamentals — and are eager to help build and maintain the world's largest portfolio of GSO orbital slot filings.

This role will be based in either the SF Bay Area or Washington DC. Other locations considered.

Role

• Support Astranis's technical coordination efforts across its portfolio of GSO orbital slots
• Develop Astranis’s orbital portfolio by identifying new opportunities for spectrum rights at GSO orbital slots
• Prepare technical materials for FCC, ITU, and other filings
• Ensure timely, professional, and technically sound communications with external coordination partners
• Ensure Astranis's global network of ground stations remains in good regulatory standing
• Run detailed interference analyses for GSO-GSO and GSO-NGSO using Visualyse or similar tools
• Coordinate across Astranis internal teams to  gather technical data from the sales, and sales engineering teams
• Develop technical analyses and comments for FCC proceedings
• Support Astranis ITU engagement through developing positions, analyses and input documents to ITU fora and regional preparatory meetings
• Represent Astranis at ITU and regional preparatory meetings as needed

Requirements

• Strong RF fundamentals
• Experience using Visualyse, MATLAB, STK or an equivalent tool
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• Engineering Bachelor’s (preferred electrical/telecom/space)
• 1+ years regulatory experience in satellite spectrum matters; other experience levels considered.

Bonus

• Has experience running interference studies for coordination purposes (ideally GSO-NGSO and GSO-GSO)
• Knows their way around an IFIC
• Experience using ITU software to generate orbital slot filings