Launch Integration Technician III

Firefly Aerospace, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision plans

Relocation benefits

Educational reimbursement

Flexible PTO

Short-term disability

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is hiring Integration/Launch Technicians in Austin, TX. You will oversee assembly, integration, and testing of the Alpha Launch Vehicle, ensuring high‑quality workmanship under aviation standards. A background in avionics production is essential.

Roles require 3–5 years in tech roles, mobility up to 30%, and an A&P license is desirable. The company offers robust benefits, relocation options, and growth opportunities in a dynamic space environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of technician experience in aviation production.
• Proficiency with harness wiring diagrams and testing methods.
• Willing to travel up to 30% and hold an A&P license is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Follow assembly procedures and work instructions.
• Execute integration processes and stage hardware.
• Install flight hardware and cable harnesses.
• Work in ESD environments and use required tooling.
• Identify design-manufacturing discrepancies and resolve them.
• Plan customer integration activities and perform load testing.

Skills

Complex assemblies

Aviation production

Electrical harness wiring

IPC/WHMA-A-620 knowledge

Travel up to 30%

Tools

DMM

Oscilloscopes

Hi-pot testers

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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Our Values

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 belief 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
  • 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 that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24‑hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. 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’ Integration Technicians are responsible for the efficient/successful assembly and test of the Alpha Launch Vehicle. This requires the ability to intuitively understand the intention behind design decisions and execute assembly based on those intentions. A strong background in production or maintenance of complex avionics systems such as in aviation is required.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Follow complex assembly procedures and work instructions
• Execute integration processes
• Stage, set up, assemble, test and install flight hardware including installation of cable harnessing.
• Familiarization with working in ESD environments
• Utilize necessary tooling and fixturing
• Follow complex planning instructions for assembly and integration for the assembly of all vehicle subsystems.
• Communicate effectively with engineers and teammates
• Identify discrepancies between design and manufacture/assembly and resolve them
• Support engineering in defining manufacturability, producibility and assembly of design using industry standard parts and products
• Manage payload and interface requirements
• Plan customer integration activities and con-ops
• Perform fit checks and load testing

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Proven experience with complex assemblies, production in aviation including reading harness and wiring diagrams, routing/testing of harnessing on-vehicle, troubleshooting, repairing and visual inspections.
• 3-5 years of technician experience plus one or more of the following fields:
• Has worked with IPC/WHMA-A-620, MIL-DTL-22520, NASA-STD-8739, J-STD-001 or ANSI/ESD S20.20
• Proficient in use of DMM, basic avionics hand tools, basic mechanical hand tools and precision measurement equipment.
• Comfortable working within an evolving process
• Flexibility regarding workflow and process
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey methodologies for assembly and troubleshooting
• Willing to travel up to 30%
• A&P License
• Relevant military experience in fixed or rotor wing maintenance is highly desired
• Two or more years of experience in one or more of the following fields:
• Military Avionics/Electrician MOS
• Army 15F, 15Y
• Marine 63 and 64 series
• Airforce 2A6X6
• Coast Guard AET
• Rocket engines, turbomachinery or complex component assembly
• Civilian/military aircraft engine experience
• Experience working with oscilloscopes and Hi-pot testers

Launch Technician III- $36.49 - $46.28

Primary Level Salary Range:

$28.85 - $40.38

ABOUT FIREFLY AEROSPACE

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24‑hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. 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’ Integration Technicians are responsible for the efficient/successful assembly and test of the Alpha Launch Vehicle. This requires the ability to intuitively understand the intention behind design decisions and execute assembly based on those intentions. A strong background in production or maintenance of complex avionics systems such as in aviation is required.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Follow complex assembly procedures and work instructions
• Execute integration processes
• Stage, set up, assemble, test and install flight hardware including installation of cable harnessing.
• Familiarization with working in ESD environments
• Utilize necessary tooling and fixturing
• Follow complex planning instructions for assembly and integration for the assembly of all vehicle subsystems.
• Communicate effectively with engineers and teammates
• Identify discrepancies between design and manufacture/assembly and resolve them
• Support engineering in defining manufacturability, producibility and assembly of design using industry standard parts and products
• Manage payload and interface requirements
• Plan customer integration activities and con-ops
• Perform fit checks and load testing

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Proven experience with complex assemblies, production in aviation including reading harness and wiring diagrams, routing/testing of harnessing on-vehicle, troubleshooting, repairing and visual inspections.
• 3-5 years of technician experience plus one or more of the following fields:
• Has worked with IPC/WHMA-A-620, MIL-DTL-22520, NASA-STD-8739, J-STD-001 or ANSI/ESD S20.20
• Proficient in use of DMM, basic avionics hand tools, basic mechanical hand tools and precision measurement equipment.
• Comfortable working within an evolving process
• Flexibility regarding workflow and process
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey methodologies for assembly and troubleshooting
• Willing to travel up to 30%

Desired

• A&P License
• Relevant military experience in fixed or rotor wing maintenance is highly desired
• Two or more years of experience in one or more of the following fields:
• Military Avionics/Electrician MOS
• Army 15F, 15Y
• Navy AT, ET
• Marine 63 and 64 series
• Airforce 2A6X6
• Coast Guard AET
• Rocket engines, turbomachinery or complex component assembly
• Civilian/military aircraft engine experience
• Experience working with oscilloscopes and Hi-pot testers

Launch Technician III- $36.49 - $46.28

Primary Level Salary Range:

$28.85 - $40.38

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, relocation benefits, 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.