Lead AIT Technician: Hands-On Spacecraft Leader

Cerebras; Golden (CO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% company-paid medical, dental, and

Vision insurance for employees and his

Flexible Spending (FSA) and Health SAV

100% employer paid Life, AD&D, Short‑/

Flexible Time Off policy (vacation/s

401(k) plan and equity options

Daily catered lunches and snacks

International exposure to our team in 

Fully paid parental leave; 14 weeks

Carrot Fertility benefits

Relocation assistance when applicable

Off-sites and social events

Job summary

Loft is hiring a Lead AIT Technician to lead hands-on spacecraft assembly, integration, and test activities in our Golden, CO site. You will mentor technicians, enforce workmanship standards, and partner with engineers to improve manufacturability and quality.

Expect to stay hands-on with hardware while developing your team, ensuring top-notch workmanship and safe, efficient production processes in a fast-growing space company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience assembling and integrating spacecraft, aerospace hardware, or similarly complex high-reliability hardware.
• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and/or managing technicians in an assembly or production environment.
• Strong hands-on mechanical and electrical assembly skills with knowledge of high-reliability workmanship.
• Ability to interpret and work from engineering drawings, schematics, 3D models, technical specifications, and detailed work instructions.
• Experience using precision hand tools, torque tools, measurement equipment, and other equipment for spacecraft/aerospace hardware assembly.
• Experience working within controlled manufacturing and engineering processes, including configuration-controlled documentation, PDM/PLM systems, ECOs, and non-conformance processes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to provide guidance, feedback, coaching.
• Meticulous attention to detail and ownership over quality of work.
• Ability and willingness to remain hands-on with spacecraft hardware while developing the technician team.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on assembly, integration, inspection, and rework of spacecraft flight hardware as a senior member of the AIT technician team.
• Manage, mentor, and develop AIT Technicians, providing regular feedback, coaching, and support for their professional growth.
• Serve as a technical reference for the technician team, helping reinforce workmanship standards, best practices, and consistent execution.
• Assemble and integrate mechanical and electrical spacecraft hardware in accordance with engineering drawings, work instructions, specifications, and controlled processes.
• Perform precision mechanical assembly activities using appropriate hand tools, torque tools, measuring equipment, and other production equipment.
• Perform electrical assembly activities such as cable and harness installation, connector mating, routing, bonding, and other spacecraft integration activities.
• Inspect completed work and support peer inspections to ensure hardware meets engineering, workmanship, and quality requirements.
• Support the development, improvement, and maintenance of build procedures, work instructions, and production documentation based on hands-on experience from the production floor.
• Identify and elevate technical or quality issues encountered during assembly and integration, working closely with Engineering and Quality to support resolution.
• Contribute to root cause investigations, NCRs, FRACAS, and corrective actions when issues arise during spacecraft build and integration.
• Partner with AIT Engineers, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, and Design Engineering to provide hands-on feedback that improves manufacturability, integration processes, and overall product quality.
• Champion a safe, organized, and disciplined production environment and help foster a culture of quality, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Team leadership

Hands-on AIT

Mechanical assembly

Electrical assembly

Engineering drawings

Precision tools

Quality workmanship

Mentoring

Root cause analysis

Tools

Torque tools

Measuring equipment

PDM/PLM systems

Job description

Loft is hiring a Lead AIT Technician to lead hands-on spacecraft assembly, integration, and test activities in our Golden, CO site. You will mentor technicians, enforce workmanship standards, and partner with engineers to improve manufacturability and quality.

Expect to stay hands-on with hardware while developing your team, ensuring top-notch workmanship and safe, efficient production processes in a fast-growing space company.