AIT Technician

PAVE Space SA; Villeneuve (VD); Remote; CHF 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

PAVE Space is building LYOBA, a heavy kick stage moving up to 4-tonne payloads from LEO to high-energy orbits in under 24 hours. You will be the person whose hands build the nervous system of the vehicle.

You’ll own end-to-end harness manufacturing, from crimping to routing, in ISO 8 cleanrooms, with strict traceability and documentation. This role requires hands-on space hardware AIT experience and fluent English; French is a plus.

Qualifications

• 2+ years hands-on experience in space hardware AIT or equivalent high-reliability products.
• Proven harness manufacturing skills: crimping, soldering, connector assembly, cable lacing and routing.
• Experience working in cleanroom environments (ISO 8 or stricter).
• You read and interpret electrical schematics, harness drawings, and wiring lists fluently.
• Rigorous, methodical approach, you don't skip steps.
• Clear English communication (French is a plus).
• Nice to have: soldering certification for high-reliability environments, ESD-sensitive hardware handling, or space startup experience.

Responsibilities

• Flight harness manufacturing end to end: cable preparation, crimping, soldering, connector assembly, lacing and routing.
• Harness standard definition and design for power, data, and RF applications.
• Spacecraft Assembly, Integration, and Test activities; mechanical and electrical integration of subsystems.
• Visual inspections and quality checks on harnesses and integrated assemblies.
• Full traceability and documentation to applicable standards.
• Cleanroom day-to-day operations: consumables, cleanliness standards, equipment upkeep.

Skills

Harness manufacture

Crimping

Soldering

Connector assembly

Cable routing

Cable lacing

Schematics reading

Cleanroom experience

English fluent

Job description

PAVE Space is building LYOBA, a heavy kick stage moving up to 4-tonne payloads from LEO to high-energy orbits in under 24 hours.

Our In-Orbit Demonstration spacecraft is moving from assembly to flight-readiness. The harnesses that connect every subsystem don't exist yet, and integration is measured in weeks. You'll be the person whose hands build the nervous system of the vehicle.

You will own

Flight harness manufacturing end to end: cable preparation, crimping, soldering, connector assembly, lacing, and routing

Harness standard definition and design for power, data, and RF applications

Spacecraft Assembly, Integration, and Test activities; mechanical and electrical integration of subsystems

Visual inspections and quality checks on harnesses and integrated assemblies

Full traceability and documentation to applicable standards

Cleanroom day-to-day operations: consumables, cleanliness standards, equipment upkeep

What we are looking for

2+ years of hands-on experience in space hardware AIT or equivalent high-reliability products

Proven harness manufacturing skills: crimping, soldering, connector assembly, cable lacing and routing

Experience working in cleanroom environments (ISO 8 or stricter)

You read and interpret electrical schematics, harness drawings, and wiring lists fluently

Rigorous, methodical approach, you don't skip steps

Clear English communication (French is a plus)

Nice to have: soldering certification for high-reliability environments, ESD-sensitive hardware handling, thermal vacuum or vibration/shock test campaign experience, rapid prototyping and iterative development, or previous work in a space startup.

You will fit if

You take pride in flawless workmanship on every crimp and every connector, because you know flight hardware doesn't get a second chance.

You'd rather own the full harness build than hand it off halfway.

You're comfortable spending your days in a cleanroom and ESD zones, and you keep those environments sharp without being asked.

You step in where integration needs you, even when it's outside your usual scope.

This is fully on-site in Villeneuve (VD). The IOD spacecraft is early; procedures are still being written, and some of the tooling isn't final. You'll be building alongside the engineers defining it.

What makes that worth it: the hardware you build will fly. You'll see your work leave the planet on PAVE Space's first mission, having built it with your own hands from raw cable to qualified flight hardware. We are building to ship, grounded on real hardware, real funding, real milestones.