Spacecraft Test Technician

Careers | AstroForge
Any Location, CA
Category Engineering
Job Description
Join AstroForge as a Spacecraft Test Technician and play a crucial role in ensuring mission success by subjecting flight hardware to environmental tests. The ideal candidate is a hands-on professional with a solid understanding of the space environment and experience with high-vacuum systems, liquid nitrogen handling, or data acquisition systems.

Requirements

  • Technical Familiarity: A solid understanding of the space environment (vacuum, extreme thermal gradients, and launch vibration) and why we test for them.
  • Hands-on Aptitude: Experience with high-vacuum systems, liquid nitrogen handling, or data acquisition systems is highly preferred.
  • Procedural Discipline: The ability to follow complex, multi-step instructions without taking shortcuts.
  • Communication: Clear verbal and written communication skills; must be able to articulate technical anomalies to engineering teams.
  • Safety Mindset: A 'safety-first' approach to high-value flight hardware and high-energy test equipment.

Benefits

  • 100% paid medical, dental, and life insurance coverage
  • Vision and FSA benefits available
  • 3 weeks of PTO + 1 week of sick time
  • 10 paid Holidays
  • Retirement savings plan – 401(k), with company match
  • Equity on the ground floor of a startup
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