AIT Engineer - Valencia

Location

Valencia, Spain

Full time

On-site

Global Manufacturing Organization

Role Highlights:

• Title:
  
  AIT Engineer

• Location:
  
  València, Spain

• Department:
  Global Manufacturing Organization

• Reports to:
  
  Head of MAITE Spain

• Type of
  
  Contract:
  
  Permanent

• Working model:
  On-site

• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)

The Mission of the AIT Engineer

ICEYE is seeking an AIT (Assembly, Integration & Testing) Engineer focused on the production of satellites at our Valencia location.

This is a hands‑on technical role, ideal for an engineer with strong expertise in systems engineering, electronics, and software, who is ready to help create production processes for a brand new satellite design while contributing directly to AIT activities.

Your day-to-day responsibilities

• Execute hands‑on satellite assembly, integration, and testing (AIT) activities for satellites. Act as a technical point of contact for subsystem integration, ensuring manufacturability, testability, and configuration consistency across builds.

• Support production readiness and design reviews (e.g., PRR, CDR), ensuring designs are mature and ready for seamless transition into production. Perform and guide system‑level verification and validation, including functional, environmental, and EMC test campaigns.

• Troubleshoot and resolve integration issues, coordinating with design, QA and other stakeholders to ensure schedule and quality adherence. Provide hands‑on support on the production floor, ensuring correct assembly, harness routing, alignment, and test setup execution.

• Contribute to, and improve AIT documentation, including test procedures, integration plans, checklists, and configuration records. Drive continuous improvement initiatives in integration methods, test efficiency, and build reliability. Support root cause analysis and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence of integration or test anomalies.

• Interface with the Global AIT and Engineering teams to ensure alignment on product standards, process updates, and lessons learned.

• Mentor and support local engineers and technicians, sharing AIT best practices and fostering a culture of quality and accountability.

What we’re looking for

Must haves:

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience in the development, integration, testing, or production of satellite systems with a focus of ownership from design to deployment.

• Proven experience in multidisciplinary engineering environments from a system engineering position. Deep technical knowledge in at least one engineering discipline (mechanical, electronics, RF or software)

• System‑level understanding across of complex systems or knowledge of satellite system architecture. Familiarity with integration, verification, production ramp‑up, and configuration management processes in complex hardware industries with a strong preference for space industry

• A systems engineering mindset, able to spot issues across interfaces, anticipate integration risks, and connect the dots between design, production, and operations.

• Strong track record of enabling design‑for‑manufacturing (DFM) and design‑for‑testability (DFT) in high‑reliability environments. Clear communication skills and confidence in interfacing with designers, production leads, and executive stakeholders.

• Hands‑on, proactive approach to problem‑solving, including root cause analysis and implementing feedback loops into design and processes.

• A continuous improvement mindset, driving toward higher levels of reliability, repeatability, and operational efficiency as production volumes increase. Strong communication skills in English (written & spoken).

Nice to haves:

• Intellectual Firepower:
  Rapidly comprehends, structures and synthesizes complex information, draws accurate conclusions, and communicates them with clarity.

• Passion & Work Ethic:
  Brings sustained motivation, resilience, and high personal standards to every challenge.

• Ownership & Action:
  Assumes full accountability for outcomes, acting decisively, and ensuring commitments are delivered.

• Integrity & Growth Mindset:
  Operates with transparency and humility, learns from setbacks, and actively seeks opportunities to grow.

• A job that matters in a dynamic Defence Technology and Earth Observation environment with a scale‑up approach

• An independent role with a supportive and diverse work environment

• Time for self‑development, research, training, conferences, or certification schemes

• Health insurance

• Creative, inspiring and collaborative office