Satellite Electrical Manufacturing Engineer

Satellite Electrical Manufacturing Engineer

Littleton , United States

Astro Digital designs, builds, and operates a diverse range of small satellite systems supporting space-based turnkey missions for several business applications, including earth observation, communications, in-orbit demonstrations, risk reduction, science, and exploration. Astro Digital is headquartered in Littleton, Colorado with roughly 110employees and infrastructure around the globe.

The Satellite Electrical Manufacturing Engineer will support the development, integration, and production of spacecraft hardware, with a primary focus on electrical manufacturing and integration. This role will have broad involvement across manufacturing engineering and will work closely with technicians, mechanical and electrical engineers, test, quality, and program teams to develop and continuously improve spacecraft production processes. While the primary area of responsibility will be electrical manufacturing, this position will have exposure and responsibility across all levels of the spacecraft build, including mechanical assembly, harness installation and integration, subsystem integration, environmental testing, final integration, and other spacecraft manufacturing activities.

The successful candidate should be comfortable working across disciplinary boundaries, troubleshooting manufacturing issues at the system level, and spending significant time on the production floor working directly with technicians and flight hardware.

The ideal candidate has strong hands‑on experience supporting high‑reliability spaceflight electrical manufacturing, harness fabrication, and PCB assembly in a cleanroom environment.

• Generate and maintain detailed manufacturing work instructions, wiring assembly procedures, and electrical rework dispositions based on electrical schematics, ICDs, harness drawings, and PCB layouts.
• Develop, release, and maintain Manufacturing Orders (MOs), routings, travelers, and bill of materials (BOMs) for harness assemblies and electronic subassemblies within the ERP/MES system (e.g., Odoo).
• Provide hands‑on technical support to production technicians during wire harness fabrication, connector pinout/termination, PCB subassembly integration, and solar cell array laydown.
• Author step‑by‑step engineering rework instructions and disposition non‑conformances (NCRs) for delicate surface‑mount/through‑hole PCB modifications, wire repairs, and trace fixes.
• Develop, optimize, and standardize processes for complex harness routing, solar cell laydown, potting, encapsulation, and precision conductive adhesive dispensing.
• Collaborate with Electrical, Test, and Systems Engineering teams to drive Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Testability (DFT) for spacecraft electronics.
• Define and maintain electrical test procedures, harness continuity checks, and in‑process voltage/glow screening protocols.
• Ensure all electrical manufacturing activities strictly comply with quality standards, IPC standards, ESD protection, FOD prevention, and cleanroom protocols.
• Support non‑conformance investigations, root cause analysis (RCA), and continuous improvement efforts to enhance yield, repeatability, and throughput.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 3–8 years of experience supporting electrical manufacturing, harness fabrication, or electronics assembly in aerospace, defense, or high‑reliability environments.
• Deep expertise in harness manufacturing, connector terminations, crimping, wire routing, and electrical schematic interpretation.
• Hands‑on experience creating detailed…