Vehicle Integration Technician II

Firefly Aerospace, Inc.

Texas

On-site

USD 70,000 - 90,000

Full time

39 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

3-month sabbatical after 5 years

Medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D

Mental health services

Paid military leave

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. seeks a Vehicle Integration Technician to oversee efficient assembly and testing of the Alpha Launch Vehicle. The role requires a strong avionics/production background and travel to launch sites for integrated operations.

Candidates with experience in aviation maintenance, IPC/WHMA standards, and the ability to work in evolving processes are invited to apply. This position is based in Briggs, TX, with potential for travel.

Qualifications

Experience with complex assemblies in aviation or similar
Ability to read harness and wiring diagrams
Willingness to travel up to 40% and perform hands-on tasks

Responsibilities

Follow complex assembly procedures and work instructions
Execute integration processes on vehicle subsystems
Stage, set up, assemble, test and install flight hardware

Skills

Harness wiring reading

Troubleshooting & repair

Communication skills

Travel up to 40%

A&P background (military/aviation)

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.

What does SciTec bring to the Firefly family?
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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 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
- 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

Vehicle 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. The role also includes travel to the launch site in order to support integrated vehicle and launch pad operations. This role is located in Briggs, TX.

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

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.
Two or more years of experience in 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 40%
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 MOSArmy 15F, 15YNavy AT, ETMarine 63 and 64 seriesAirforce 2A6X6Coast Guard AETRocket engines, turbomachinery or complex component assemblyCivilian/military aircraft engine experience
Experience working with oscilloscopes and Hi-pot testers