Avionics Production Technician

Firefly Aerospace, Inc.; Cedar Park, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Parental leave

Educational reimbursement

Short term disability

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is seeking an Avionics Production Technician to join our Cedar Park, Texas facility. You will assemble wire harnesses and related flight hardware, ensuring high reliability for space launch systems.

You’ll work with Avionics and Integration teams to build, test, and document assemblies for QA and production timelines. The role emphasizes hands-on harness assembly, adherence to IPC standards, and collaboration with engineers to drive quality and on-time delivery in a

Qualifications

• Experience in wire harness or electronics assembly.
• Ability to read and interpret wiring diagrams and schematics.
• Attention to detail and ability to document work for QA.

Responsibilities

• Fabricate and assemble high quality wire harnesses and electro-mechanical assemblies.
• Ensure work is properly documented for QA inspection.
• Perform harness repair techniques including splicing, soldering, and pinning.
• Read planning documents, schematics, and drawings to guide assembly.
• Provide feedback to engineering on quality and process improvements.
• Comply with FOD, tool control, 5-S and safety regulations.
• Monitor progress and deliver work on time.

Skills

Wire harness assembly

Electrical assembly

Soldering

Read schematics

Quality documentation

Teamwork

Tools

IPC 620

IPC-610

J-STD-001

Job description

At Firefly, we’re focused on making space attainable for everyone – including you! Each team member’s passion, dedication, and innovative ideas have a direct impact on fueling our successful trajectory into space. And there’s no shortage of meaningful projects to work on at Firefly. With launch, lunar, and orbital vehicles, Firefly has a diverse line of business with opportunities to get hands‑on experience launching rockets, operating in space, and landing on the Moon.

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Headquartered in the Lone Star State, Firefly’s hardworking team reflects Texas’ GO BIG culture in everything we do. We build big, achieve big, and dream big. We’re building launch vehicles and spacecraft to provide rapid, reliable space access. We’ve achieved some incredible wins, including the first successful commercial Moon landing. And we’re dreaming bigger than this planet with ambitions to Mars, Venus, and beyond. Our core values are what drive us along the way.

Passion

Fireflies believe in perseverance, responsiveness, and mentoring others with a focus on inspiring a better future.

Accountability

Fireflies act with integrity and take ownership of our actions, commitments, decisions, and outcomes.

Fireflies work in alignment across teams and communicate clearly with mutual respect for one another.

Fireflies deliver high-quality work through technical rigor and timely disciplined execution for our customers.

We take care of our Fireflies with some of the best benefits in the industry. Our mission to make space for everyone starts with our employees and allowing them to make space for their family, their career, and their future.

Space for You

• Unlimited PTO for exempt employees
• 3-month sabbatical for every 5 years of service
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Mental health services
• Paid military leave

Space for Your Family

• 12 weeks paid maternity leave
• 4 weeks paid spouse leave
• $20k towards family planning: fertility, surrogacy, adoption
• Dog friendly workplace

Space for Your Career

• $10k/year towards trade school or college
• Ongoing coaching to advance leadership skills

Space for Your Future

• Employee-ownership with stock bonuses
• 4% Safe Harbor 401(k) matching
• $10k bonus for home purchase in Cedar Park, Texas

Job Openings

From launch technicians to propulsion engineers, Firefly has open roles across the company. We’re looking for passionate, bright innovators to join our team and help make space an achievable dream for everyone.

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company on a mission to reliably and repeatedly launch, land, and operate space systems from Earth to the Moon and beyond. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the first commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the first company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

SUMMARY

Firefly Avionics Production Technicians work closely with the Avionics and Integration teams in the design, build, integration, and test of fully functional space launch rockets, satellites, and landers. This work primarily includes the assembly of avionics harnesses and associated flight hardware.The compensation and responsibilities will be adjusted to match the experience level and abilities of the candidate. This position will sit in our electronics manufacturing facility in Cedar Park, Texas.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Fabricate and assemble high quality, high reliability wire harnesses and electro-mechanical assemblies
• Ensures that all work performed is properly and completely documented in preparation for QA inspection
• Demonstrates effective harness repair techniques using acceptable practices including splicing, soldering, and pinning of wiring
• Read and interpret planning documents, process controls, schematics, wiring diagrams, specifications, drawings, manuals, blueprints, and engineering sketches
• Provide feedback to engineering on quality, discrepancy identification and manufacturing and design improvements
• Comply with the company FOD program, tool control program, 5-S program, and all safety regulations
• Self-monitor work progress against area benchmarks and achieve on time delivery of all work

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• 1-4 years related work experience in wire harness assembly or box and battery assembly.
• Demonstrates basic technical skills in electro-mechanical assembly
• Excellent concentration and attention to detail with first-rate work efficiency and accuracy
• Industry experience related to harness assembly including wire preparation, connector termination and assembly, soldering, and layup
• Must have the dexterity and ability to perform hands on harness assembly for extended periods of time
• Basic computer skills with the ability to use e-mail and associated MS office programs
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and teamwork skills
• Knowledge of industry standards (i.e. – IPC/WHMA-A-620, IPC-610, IPC-J-STD-001) and associated assembly techniques (i.e. – crimping, soldering, wire preparation)
• Mentoring to fellow team members. Level III team members will mentor level I and II team members.
• Experience in a fast-paced, constant-changing production environment with flight hardware
• Military and/or civilian aircraft production experience
• Certifications in IPC 620, 610 and J-STD

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status