Astrolab designs, builds and operates commercial planetary rovers, with job posts centered on the CLV-1 lunar rover, its avionics architecture and thermal control. The stack spans CAD (Siemens NX, Creo, SolidWorks), FPGA design (Xilinx, Microsemi, VHDL, SystemVerilog) and test tooling (LabVIEW, MATLAB), showing in-house flight electronics work. Hiring is accelerating, engineering-heavy and skewed toward senior talent.
Astrolab, legally Venturi Astrolab, Inc., is a privately held company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It develops a fleet of multi-purpose commercial rovers intended to operate on the Moon and Mars. The company runs its own manufacturing, integration and test facility and describes itself as an American-owned and operated small business. It employs 51–200 people and hires within the United States across engineering, manufacturing, avionics, logistics and operations.
Astrolab's job posts point to the CLV-1 lunar rover, a lunar rover avionics architecture, active thermal control systems for rovers, robotic arm control and flight hardware qualification.
Astrolab uses Siemens NX, Creo and SolidWorks for CAD, Altium Designer and LTspice for electronics, Xilinx and Microsemi FPGAs with VHDL and SystemVerilog, plus Python, C++, LabVIEW, MATLAB and NetSuite.
Astrolab is headquartered in Hawthorne, California, and currently hires in the United States, with an engineering-heavy, senior-leaning hiring mix.
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