Automation, Integration, and Test (AI&T for Spacecraft) - Technician

Karman+

We are inventors, designers, engineers, scientists, tinkerers, entrepreneurs, adventurers, artists, activists, global citizens, architects, musicians, builders, writers, athletes and space nerds. We partner with the best minds and most experienced teams across industry and academia, bringing together the knowledge, experience, and skills required to navigate our critical path.

Mission

We want to mine space resources from near-Earth asteroids to provide abundant, sustainable energy and resources in space and for Earth.

Vision 

Asteroid mining has lived at the intersection of scientific research and popular culture for decades, with as many academic papers published as there are books, TV shows and movies about it.

Access to resources, with its finite nature and disparate distribution, plays an essential part in the geopolitical web of power and wealth. It has defined economic growth to such an extent that we have been using them as primary demarcation lines and identifiers in our history, from the stone to bronze and iron age to our current silicon age.

But our resources-driven growth faces a massive existential challenge, with climate change, ecosystem degradation and resource depletion demanding a complete reset. Humanity needs to shift global transportation, manufacturing, construction and energy onto a sustainable path.

Expanding beyond the Kármán line is where we believe transformative future growth and innovation will be found. Recent missions by NASA (OSIRIS-REx & DART) and JAXA (Hayabusa2) have firmly pushed the idea of using space resources from academic research into commercial opportunity.

We believe the Regolith Age, powered by abundant space resources, is an inevitability that we can accelerate.

 

We value these principles:

• Diversity of thought. We believe that different perspectives drive better results. We aim to build diverse teams and a diverse company.
• Ownership, feedback and accountability. Ideas improve through collaboration, discussion and iteration. Decisions don’t follow the same pattern and revert to the mean when made in a group. We aim to have clear ownership, accountability for results and autonomy to deliver. 
• No silos. We build cross-functional teams to be able to deliver on our goals. There are no predefined lanes for people to operate in, information is pushed out across all teams to make sure we benefit from cross-pollination.
• High talent bar, no a**holes. We optimize for potential and a growth mindset. We value experience, but only when balanced with self-awareness and first principles thinking.
• Small is beautiful. The best results as well as the best work experience come from a small team of talented people working towards a common goal.

 

Position: AI&T Technician

Location: Broomfield, CO

Position Type: Full-time, on-stie

Mission: High Frontier – Build the Space Vehicle that Collects Asteroid Material

At Karman+, we’re building spacecraft systems that will take us beyond Earth orbit. For the High Frontier mission, we need a hands-on technician to assemble the nuts, bolts, and wires that make spacecraft design a reality. This is a key role for someone who loves to work with their hands, keep things organized, ensure repeatability, and influence best practices for spacecraft integration campaigns.

What it takes to be successful in this role:

As an AI&T (Assembly, Integration, & Test) Technician, you will own the execution of test harness builds, flight harness builds, harness installations/routing, mechanical installations, MLI fabrication and installation, and other aspects of flight vehicle build. You will help grow the technician team and work hand-in-hand with designers and test engineers, providing input into both vehicle design and test design. You may also help the avionics team with PCB re-work and provide mentoring to other employees performing detailed technician work.

Key Responsibilities 

• Own the harness lab
  • Assist with harness design, ensuring designs are actually buildable
  • Perform test harness build and re-work
  • Perform flight harness build and re-work
  • Procure harness build and verification equipment
  • Help define harness build and verification standards and procedures
  • Manage harness inventories (contacts, wire, sleeving, connectors, etc.)
  • Build, verify, and maintain harnesses for repeatable use
• Design and build test harnessing for:
  • FlatSat environments (starting from flight harness designs)
  • Breakout boxes and reconfigurable test harnesses
  • Environmental test configurat