AIT Engineer – Delft

About this role:

We are looking for an AIT Engineer to join our Delft team in the Netherlands.  This opportunity is ideal for someone looking for responsibility and development opportunities of a technical nature in a dynamic, fast paced working environment with exciting projects and challenging schedules. You will be keen to drive our production capabilities in the aerospace sector.

You will play a critical role in ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of cost, quality, safety, and timelines. You will be focused on continuous improvement, improving efficiencies in product manufacturing as well as ensure quality assurance within the production process

This role is hands-on, site-based role as it requires assembling, integrating, and testing of our products and subsystems.

Joining our team means working in a collaborative and innovative environment, on projects where your work literally ends up in space!

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and execute Assembly, Integration, and Testing (AIT) activities, ensuring adherence project schedules, quality standards, and cost targets.
• Develop and maintain AIT procedures, plans, and documentation, including test reports and lessons learned.
• Perform mechanical and environmental testing (vibration, thermal, EMC), analyze results, and manage non-conformances through NCRs.
• Conduct inspections on incoming and outgoing components, generate detailed reports, ensuring compliance with technical and quality requirements, including component verification, dimensional checks, functional testing.
• Drive continuous improvement across AIT processes, tools, and quality assurance practices.
• Manage cleanroom and lab facilities, including inventory, equipment, and consumables, ensuring compliance with safety and cleanliness standards.
• Provide technical support to engineering teams during design, integration, and validation phases.
• Train and support cleanroom personnel, promoting best practices in handling and assembly.

Skills required:

• Relevant degree or equivalent work experience
• Previous experience working in a clean room environment
• High level of practical hands-on experience in Assembly, Manufacturing, and Integration of complex systems
• Some knowledge or experience with electronics
• Experience in system and sub-system testing including test design, procedure definitions, procurement, assembly, execution, analysis & reporting
• Detail-oriented, focused, and meticulous
• Ability to work independently as well as effectively collaborate within a multicultural team
• Proficient in MS software and fluent in English, both spoken and written

Skills desired:

• Degree in Aerospace, Systems, Mechanical and/or Electronic engineering
• Previous experience in the build and test of spacecraft components and sub-systems
• Relevant space industry experience

• A knowledge or awareness of ESA ECSS standards (or equivalent international standards) relating to verification and testing
• Previous experience working with small/medium sized companies

ABOUT AAC CLYDE SPACE

AAC Clyde Space, a leading New Space company, specialises in small satellite technologies and services that enable businesses, governments, and educational organisations to access high-quality, timely data from space. This data has a vast range of applications, from weather forecasting to precision farming to environmental monitoring, and is essential to improving our quality of life on Earth.

Our growing capabilities bring together three divisions:

• Space Data as a Service – delivering data from space directly to customers
• Space missions – turnkey solutions that empower customers to streamline their space missions
• Space products and components – a full range of off-the-shelf and tailor-made subsystems, components, and sensors

AAC Clyde Space aims to become a world leader in commercial small satellites and services from space, applying advances in its technology to tackle global challenges and improve our life on Earth.

Some of our clients include Horizon Technologies, Orbcomm, OHB Sweden, Intuitive Machines, Orbital Micro Systems, the United States Airforce Academy, UK Space Agency, European Space Agency and NASA.

AAC Clyde Space Group consists of the parent company AAC Clyde Space AB (publ) and subsidiaries in Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, South Africa and the USA.  Our main operations are in these five countries, with partner networks in Japan and South Korea.

AAC Clyde Space’s share is traded on the Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market.

Data Protection Policy

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Right to Work

AAC Clyde Space has a legal responsibility to ensure that all its employees have the legal right to live and work in the EU or the country in which they plan to work. Therefore, if you are made an offer of employment, this will be subject to AAC Clyde Space verifying that you are eligible to work in that country before you start work.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We aim to create a positive recruitment and selection experience across every part of our business. The company is committed to handling applications to a consistently high standard and all candidates with dignity and respect. Those involved in the recruitment and selection process will act with integrity, objectivity and professionalism.   We are committed to equal opportunities for all and to have diversity reflected within our global workforce. We believe its diversity and inclusion will allow for greater creativity and innovation to help AAC Clyde Space Group deliver the vision to help improve life on earth.

Openness to Flexible Working

We recognise work-life balance is important so we are open to discussions around flexible working, depending on the nature of the role and business needs.  If you would like to know more, please ask the Hiring Manager during any recruitment process that you may be involved in.