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# Assembly, Integration and Test Engineer

- **Company:** SAMARA AEROSPACE, INC.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $175,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Automation of Tests, Spreadsheets, Databases, Python (Programming Language), Requirements Traceability, Verification and Validation (Software), Jama (Software), Scripting
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-assembly-integration-and-test-engineer-samara-aerospace-8817493

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience in spacecraft AIT, systems engineering, or both, with at least one program taken through environmental test
 * Hands-on experience integrating and testing flight hardware, including harness bring-up, functional test scripting, and cleanroom protocols
 * Working knowledge of GEVS or equivalent environmental test standards and how to tailor them for small sat rideshare missions
 * Experience writing requirements, verification plans, and test procedures that other engineers can execute
 * Experience creating and managing a schedule with input from multiple disciplines
 * Comfort operating with ambiguity and owning schedule-critical deliverables on a small team
 * Strong communication skills across mechanical, electrical, software, and RF discipline

Preferred:

 * Experience with SpaceX rideshare or similar launch integration processes and deliverables
 * Experience with deployable mechanisms testing (hinges, latches, release devices, offload rigs)
 * Familiarity with requirements and systems management tooling (Jama, Valispace, DOORS, or spreadsheet-based systems done well)
 * Scripting ability in Python for test automation and telemetry analysis
 * Experience with EMI/EMC test campaigns and RF payload integration
 * Prior experience at an early-stage hardware startup

Why Join Us?

 * Be a key player in a groundbreaking aerospace startup
 * Work on exciting projects with the potential to revolutionize the satellite industry
 * Collaborate with a passionate and driven team
 * Opportunity to grow with the company and shape its future, Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

## Description

The Engineering team at Samara is looking for a Senior AIT Systems Engineer to own the systems assembly, integration, test and scalability for the Hummingbird bus. The first flight vehicle for Hummingbird will launch on a SpaceX rideshare in 2027. In this position you will be expected to use a systems engineering approach to lead the AIT campaign for Hummingbird. This will include requirements traceability, verification/validation planning, and systems interfacing. You will work closely with the CTO and each department to take Hummingbird from subsystem hardware to a verified, launch-ready spacecraft. Expect to go deep, be wrong often, iterate, learn a lot, and work alongside a team that is passionate about building something truly new., * Plan and coordinate the full Hummingbird AIT campaign. This will involve collaborating with each discipline as well as the test engineers at Samara. It will include generating AIT schedules and execution planning.

 * Own the requirements database and verification matrix, maintaining traceability from mission requirements through subsystem specs to test evidence
 * Author and control ICDs across avionics, mechanisms, RF, and payload interfaces, including the launch services provider ICD
 * Define the verification and validation approach for each requirement (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration) and defend it at reviews
 * Ensure that interfaces between subsystems are compatible
 * Provide input to mass, power, and link budgets and support tracking margins through the program
 * Support milestone reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR, PSR) with verification status, open risks, and waiver rationale
 * As needed, support communication with hosted payload customers relating to integration with Hummingbird
 * Coordinate with the launch services provider on environmental requirements, safety submissions, and integration deliverable


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