Senior AIT Technician Verified today
Your Role
You will lead and execute integration activities for optical payloads, initially supporting existing payload integration and then independently performing AIT activities on future units. You will contribute to planning, optimisation, and troubleshooting in a fast-paced environment, working with high autonomy while coordinating closely with engineering teams and external partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate and maintain constellr's AIT facility, including set-up, procurement, and maintenance and calibration of AIT equipment.
- Perform mechanical and electrical integration of optical payloads with autonomy, assembling complex subassemblies and instruments, interpreting drawings, procedures, and interface requirements.
- Support or perform optical integration activities, including optical subsystem alignment and handling of precision optical equipment.
- Support optical testing activities and prepare test setups for radiometric and geometric characterisation.
- Execute instrumentation integration, including installation and routing of accelerometers, thermocouples, thermistors, and heaters, verifying proper installation and signal integrity.
- Perform advanced electrical integration tasks including harness assembly (crimping, splicing, connector mating) and verification using electrical measurements.
- Perform and supervise bonding activities using space-qualified adhesives and verify bonding quality and process compliance.
- Review and improve AIT procedures, estimate task durations, and identify risks.
- Lead test preparation and execution support, including instrumentation installation for environmental tests and troubleshooting during test campaigns.
- Ensure documentation, traceability, as-run procedures, non-conformance reporting, and configuration tracking.
- Interface across multiple engineering teams and external suppliers, and mentor junior technicians.
About constellr
constellr operates a thermal satellite constellation delivering accurate land surface temperature data for commercial, government, defence, and global institutions. Offices are located in Brussels, Freiburg, Munich, Washington, and Toulouse.