AIT Engineer – Delft

About this role:

Are you a student with a passion for aerospace engineering and hands-on experience in AIT? We are looking for a temporary part-time AIT Engineer to join our dynamic team in Delft and drive our production capabilities in the aerospace sector.

This role is perfect for students eager to gain technical expertise and production support experience in the manufacturing of spacecraft products. You will play a critical role in ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of cost, quality, safety, and timelines. This role is hands-on, site-based role as it requires assembling, integrating, and testing of our products and subsystems.

We are open to discussion on the working arrangements, ideally it would be up to 20 hours per week.

If you are a proactive student looking to expand your knowledge and drive continuous improvement, we would love to hear from you! Joining our team means working in a collaborative and innovative environment, on projects that literally reach for the stars!

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with assembly, integration, and testing (AIT) activities while ensuring compliance with cost, quality, and schedule requirements.
• Collaborate with the development team to create AIT plans, procedures, and test reports, documenting lessons learned.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and enhance AIT procedures and standards.
• Perform incoming- and outgoing inspections of components and products.
• Help prepare for and conduct environmental tests, including mechanical, thermal, and EMC testing.
• Assist in analysing test results and raising non-conformance reports when necessary.
• Maintain inventory systems accurately.
• Support design reviews to assess implications for the AIT phase.
• Assist in managing the clean room, ensuring proper maintenance and adherence to safe working practices.

Skills required:

• Currently pursuing a relevant degree or equivalent work experience
• Hands-on experience in Assembly, Manufacturing, and Integration (AIT) of complex systems (academic or practical).
• Knowledge of system and sub-system testing, including test design, procedures, assembly, execution, analysis, and reporting.
• Detail-oriented, focused, and meticulous
• Ability to work both independently and collaborate within a multicultural team
• Competent IT skills including Office software
• Proficient in English, both verbally and written

Skills desired:

• Degree in Aeronautical, Mechanical or Electronic Engineering (or a related field)
• Relevant space industry experience

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

As part of our recruitment process, we collect and process personal data relating to job applicants. We are committed to being transparent about how we collect and use this data, please click here to see our job applicant privacy notice.

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.