AIT Lead - Electronics R&D for Next-Gen Spacecraft

ICEYE; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

ICEYE is seeking an Electronics R&D Test Lead to own end-to-end electrical AIT for our new generation of optical spacecraft. You will lead the electrical testing team, organize the work, and drive qualification, debugging, and integration with EGSE and production handover.

This role blends hands-on technical ownership with people leadership, requiring collaboration with design engineers, tight timelines, and a willingness to grow into a leadership position in a fast-growing, global space tech

Qualifications

• Experience leading people or a senior, people-oriented technical background with a genuine interest in moving into people leadership.
• Hands-on development, integration, testing, or production of complex electronics systems.
• Strong debugging skills across both electronics and software.
• AIT experience spanning both software and electronics.
• Working knowledge of Python.
• A can-do attitude and willingness to learn.
• Comfortable working under pressure and tight timelines, since test campaigns can involve intense, demanding periods.

Responsibilities

• Lead the electrical AIT team, organizing its work and owning the end-to-end electrical AIT process for new spacecraft and subsystems.
• Run subsystem qualification and functional testing, and spacecraft-level system testing, for the new generation of optical satellites.
• Debug electronics and software issues as they arise, carrying out root cause analysis on failures and reworking PCBAs where needed.
• Own the design and build of the Electronics Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) the team relies on for testing and integration.
• Support next-generation spacecraft integration, ensuring AIT procedures are created and properly handed over to the production team.
• Represent the team's testing and integration findings back to the design engineering groups, from early concept through late prototyping, and drive the resulting design changes.

Skills

People leadership

Electronics development

Debugging electronics

AIT experience

Python

Under pressure

Job description

ICEYE is seeking an Electronics R&D Test Lead to own end-to-end electrical AIT for our new generation of optical spacecraft. You will lead the electrical testing team, organize the work, and drive qualification, debugging, and integration with EGSE and production handover.

This role blends hands-on technical ownership with people leadership, requiring collaboration with design engineers, tight timelines, and a willingness to grow into a leadership position in a fast-growing, global space tech