Commercial lunar and Mars rovers for planetary exploration missions
Astrolab designs and manufactures multi-purpose rovers for lunar and Martian surface operations. The tech stack—ANSYS, Thermal Desktop, SystemVerilog, Xilinx, power-electronics tools—reflects deep hardware and thermal engineering work; the project mix (radiation mitigation, power electronics, payload integration, flight structures) confirms this is clean-sheet vehicle design, not software iteration. Hiring is heavily weighted toward engineering (21 of 32 roles) with a pronounced gap in manufacturing and ops, signaling they're scaling design capacity faster than production capability.
Notable leadership hires: Safety and Mission Assurance Director
Astrolab builds commercially operated rover platforms for exploration and research missions on the Moon and Mars. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Hawthorne, California, the company is a small business with 51–200 employees, most based in the United States. The team brings over five decades of combined experience in planetary robotics, electric vehicles, and human spaceflight. Their core work spans vehicle design, thermal and radiation analysis, power system architecture, and payload integration—delivered through an in-house manufacturing and test facility. Primary customers include government space agencies and commercial partners executing surface exploration missions.
Astrolab uses ANSYS, Thermal Desktop, SystemVerilog, Xilinx, LTspice, Altium Designer, MATLAB, and NX for simulation, electrical design, and mechanical CAD. Hardware platforms include Microsemi and Xilinx FPGAs, DDR4 memory, and standard space interfaces (I2C, UART, AXI).
Astrolab is headquartered in Hawthorne, California, and operates as an American-owned small business. All current hiring is in the United States.
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