Team Lead, AIT Engineering

Who We Are

ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations. This includes sovereign and turnkey ISR missions leveraging ICEYE’s world-leading synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology, as well as access to data from the world’s largest SAR satellite constellation. These capabilities enable partners to detect and respond to critical changes anywhere on Earth with unprecedented speed and accuracy – day or night and in any weather, supported by ultra high-resolution imagery and high-frequency revisits.

As a trusted partner for defense, intelligence, security, and maritime domain awareness, ICEYE’s near real-time data creates a tactical advantage for mission-critical operations. Designed for dual use, the platform also serves civil protection and commercial users for natural-catastrophe intelligence, insurance, maritime monitoring (including oil-spill detection), and finance, contributing to global security and community resilience.

ICEYE operates internationally with offices in Finland, Poland, Spain, Japan, the UAE, Greece, and the US. The company has more than 900 employees, inspired by the shared vision of improving life on Earth by becoming the global source of truth in Earth Observation.

The Mission

ICEYE is looking for an AIT Engineering Team Lead to head one of the most critical technical teams in the organization. In this role, you will lead a team of senior or staff multidisciplinary engineers responsible for ensuring our satellites are manufacturable, testable, and production-ready at scale. Acting as the key link between engineering and production, the AIT Engineering team plays an essential role throughout the full satellite lifecycle, from early design and technical reviews through integration, test, and delivery. Your team will ensure that what is designed can be reliably built and scaled, while supporting production, resolving issues, and driving feedback into continuous product and process improvements.

Expected Outcomes & Requirements

Outcomes:

• Drive both the technical direction and operational effectiveness of the team.
• Lead work across all major satellite domains including: power, payload, avionics, software-hardware interface, communications, and system-level verification.
• Represent AIT Engineering across projects and disciplines.
• Guide the team through new satellite designs, production ramp-up, and mission-critical troubleshooting.
• Apply your system-level understanding and hands-on spacecraft development or testing experience to ensure mission success.
• Contribute to building high-reliability hardware at scale.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in the development, integration, testing, or production of complex hardware systems (e.g., aerospace, automotive, defense, semiconductors, satellites), preferably with full-lifecycle ownership from design to deployment.
• Proven leadership in multidisciplinary engineering environments, with experience mentoring senior engineers and driving cross-functional collaboration.
• Deep technical knowledge in at least one engineering discipline (e.g., electronics, mechanical, systems, software), with system-level understanding across full product or system architectures.
• Familiarity with integration, verification, production ramp-up, and configuration management processes in complex hardware industries.
• A systems engineering mindset, able to spot issues across interfaces, anticipate integration risks, and connect the dots between design, production, and operations.
• Experience supporting technical and production readiness reviews (e.g., PDR, CDR, PRR or equivalent) and translating design decisions into manufacturable, testable solutions.
• Strong track record of enabling design-for-manufacturing (DFM) and design-for-testability (DFT) in high-reliability environments.
• Clear communication skills and confidence interfacing with designers, production leads, and executive stakeholders.
• Hands-on, proactive approach to problem-solving, including root cause analysis and implementing feedback loops into design and processes.
• A continuous improvement mindset, driving toward higher levels of reliability, repeatability, and operational efficiency as production volumes increase.

Key Competences

In addition to the requirements above, we evaluate candidates on these key qualities throughout the hiring process:

• Intellectual Firepower: Rapidly comprehends, structures and synthesizes complex information, draws accurate conclusions, and communicates them with clarity.
• Passion & Work Ethic: Brings sustaine