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Schmidt Entities

Assembly, Integration & Test (AIT) Manager

Tucson, AZ · New York, NY

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Seniority
Lead / management
Stated salary
$200,000 – $270,000 per year
Country
US
Work mode
On-site / unstated
First seen by hirly
11 Sept 2026

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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Assembly, Integration & Test (AIT) Manager to build and lead the AIT organization for a next-generation space observatory through final integration, environmental verification, hazardous processing, and launch vehicle integration on the Eastern Range. You will collaborate with world-class scientists, engineers, and global partners on a program that enables groundbreaking astrophysical discoveries.

The program includes payload-level integration of a telescope and instruments at a supplier site in California, delivery of a bus and payload to a final integration site in Florida, where spacecraft-level testing, propellant loading, encapsulation, and launch vehicle integration are performed. This is a management position: you will stand up a new integration facility purpose-built for world-class space optics, manage commercial processing providers, staff and qualify the technician workforce, establish production and test process control, and run the integrated test campaign from testbed integration through launch handoff.

The Spacecraft Systems Engineering group owns the Requirements Verification Plan, the test strategy, and the closure criteria. The AIT group that you lead implements that plan: translating verification requirements into executable procedures and integration flows, executing them on flight and testbed hardware, and delivering as-run data and discrepancies back for requirement closure. Verification approach is a Systems Engineering product; verification execution is an AIT product. The AIT Manager and the V&V engineers work as direct counterparts across that boundary.

Key responsibilities for this role include the following:

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