Electrical Technician

Power the future of Space at Star Catcher

Star Catcher is powering the future of space by building the world’s first orbital energy grid: the Star Catcher Network. Spacecraft connect into the Star Catcher Network and receive conditioned energy via their existing solar arrays, requiring no retrofit to utilize the first true space-based infrastructure. The Star Catcher Network provides power as needed from tens of Watts to tens of thousands of Watts at concentrations from fractions of a Sun of flux to ten Suns of flux.

The Star Catcher Network enables More Uptime, More Bandwidth, and More Mission.

Join our team of experienced and passionate space innovators driven to transform and expand humanity’s utilization of space. The creation of space-based power infrastructure is as impactful for space missions in the 2020’s and 2030’s as the advent of low-cost launch services was in the 2010’s. We seek individuals who share our passion for enabling people to do more in space and are not afraid to get their hands dirty to make our vision of the future reality.

Star Catcher Industries, Inc., located in Jacksonville, Florida
, has an opportunity for an Electrical Technician to support the development of space-to-space power beaming spacecraft and the Star Catcher Network, its orbital power grid. This role will be responsible for assembling, repairing and managing circuit boards and cable harness assemblies used on spacecraft, satellites, and other space-related technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Perform high-reliability PCB assembly and rework in accordance with IPC Class 3 standards, including fine-pitch SMT soldering, through-hole components, conformal coating, inspection, and microscope-level rework to support flight and engineering units.
• Repair circuit boards by interpreting schematics, layouts, and test data to diagnose faults, replace components, and validate corrective actions to minimize hardware downtime.
• Fabricate, assemble, and test cable harnesses including crimping, soldering, shielding, lacing, connector integration, and strain relief in compliance with aerospace workmanship standards such as IPC-A-620.
• Write and maintain harness documentation such as wiring diagrams, pinout tables, build travelers, test procedures and inspection checklists
• Execute electrical testing and validation including continuity, insulation resistance, hipot (as applicable), functional verification, and support for system-level integration testing.
• Support avionics integration activities by assisting with board bring-up, subsystem integration, hardware debugging, and coordination with electrical and embedded software engineers.
• Manage and maintain the electrical lab space including tool calibration tracking, ESD compliance, consumables inventory, equipment upkeep (oscilloscopes, power supplies, crimp tools, solder stations), and safe lab practices.
• Continuously improve lab processes and workflows by developing standardized work instructions, optimizing bench layouts, improving build efficiency, reducing rework rates, and implementing quality control best practices.
• Ensure configuration control and traceability for hardware builds, serialized components, harnesses, and reworked assemblies to support flight-readiness and audit requirements.
• Contribute to a fast-paced startup environment by taking ownership of builds, identifying process gaps, proactively solving production issues, and supporting rapid iteration cycles for prototype and flight hardware.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex, first-of-its-kind technical challenges, applying strong analytical thinking and sound engineering judgment when working at the edge of current spaceflight and avionics technology

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 4 years of hands-on experience in high-reliability circuit board assembly and rework (SMT and through-hole) OR in high-reliability cable harness assembly and rework

Ideal

Experience:

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering Technology, Electronics Engineering Technology, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in high-reliability circuit board assembly and rework (SMT and through-hole)
• 10+ years of experience in fabricating…