Job Description

ReOrbit is looking for a Senior AIT Technician – Harness & MLI to join our spacecraft production team and play a hands-on role in building flight-ready hardware.

As our Senior AIT Technician, you will be responsible for the manufacture, assembly, verification and repair of spacecraft harnesses and Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI). You will work directly with flight hardware, taking ownership of your work packages and ensuring that every activity meets the required standards for quality, traceability and cleanliness.

This is a hands-on role for someone with a strong craftsmanship mindset, who takes pride in precision and quality and is able to identify and prevent defects before they become problems. You will work closely with AIT, engineering and production teams to support spacecraft integration and ensure hardware is ready for the next stage of assembly and testing.

It's an exciting chance to join a dynamic start-up, with the opportunity to make a real impact, to reach our goal of pushing the boundaries of space data transfer.

Responsibilities

• Manufacture and repair spacecraft harnesses, including crimping, soldering, shielding and routing.

• Perform electrical verification activities, including continuity, insulation and short-circuit testing.

• Fabricate MLI blankets, including cutting, layering, sewing and final assembly.

• Perform MLI and harness rework and repair for non-conforming hardware.

• Follow applicable ECSS and NASA workmanship standards, as well as internal procedures and SOPs.

• Record manufacturing steps, inspections and test results, ensuring full traceability of all work performed.

• Maintain strict compliance with cleanroom, contamination control and ESD requirements.

• Support spacecraft integration and installation activities.

• Take ownership of assigned work packages and deliver them according to the required quality, schedule and documentation standards.

• Identify potential defects or non-conformances early and contribute to their resolution.

Skills and Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in satellite AIT, aerospace manufacturing or cleanroom assembly.

• Hands-on experience manufacturing and testing electrical harnesses.

• Experience with MLI blanket fabrication.

• Strong practical skills in crimping, soldering and harness routing.

• Knowledge of electrical verification techniques, including continuity, insulation and short-circuit testing.

• Experience working with technical drawings, manufacturing instructions and build documentation.

• Understanding of cleanroom, contamination control and ESD requirements.

• Ability to work independently while maintaining a high level of precision and attention to detail.

• Strong discipline when it comes to workmanship, cleanliness and documentation.

• A reliable and accountable approach to owning and delivering work packages.

• Strong teamwork skills and the ability to share knowledge and support less experienced team members.

What does ReOrbit do?

ReOrbit builds the foundation for the next generation of space applications by transforming satellites into truly intelligent, interconnected platforms, defined by software. Our satellite design philosophy revolves around the idea that satellites must network, communicate with each other and thus improve mission efficiency. How can this be achieved? Thanks to a flexible software-first architecture, where all these aspects are dealt with upfront in the mission concept, as integrated functionalities.

ReOrbit’s top-notch team of software engineers and system architects develop in-house software, procure hardware from the best-in-class suppliers, and seamlessly integrate the components to create flexible and secure satellites. Today, we are a rapidly growing company building a very strong multidisciplinary team to support our activities. We are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with a subsidiaries in Bristol, UK, Bariloche, Argentina and Bengaluru, India.

Working at ReOrbit

At ReOrbit, we are focused on building a strong team as we believe nothing can be accomplished without innovative, humble and curious minds working together on a common goal. We’re all about fostering an inclusive, dynamic environment where equality and diversity are our strength.

We offer

• Challenging but rewarding environment – you will thrive if you are always reflecting on how to make things better. Your ideas will be heard.

• Ambitious and supportive network of people, who are motivated to change the space industry, bringing expertise from both classic and new space .

• Benefits such as lunch vouchers, events, parties, occupational health care and additional health insurance - but most importantly a possibility to be a part of a unique and diverse team, connected by similar mindset and sense of humor.

• We like to spend time together! You can choose activities whichever is to your liking – runOrbit, climbOrbit; become ping pong or board games champion.

• We support relocation and integration into Finnish society.

Join us in our journey of building software enabled satellites for secure communications
and, thus, creating the most compelling in space data flow company of the new space era.

The Company may require a security clearance for certain positions. Any such security clearance will be conducted in accordance with applicable law and the Company's relevant policies

For agencies: We do not accept unsolicited CVs for our open vacancies. Any CV sent to our team unsolicited will reserve us the right to pursue a candidate without obligation to the sender. All candidate submissions must be conducted through our official channels and in accordance with our terms of engagement.