A propos d'Exotrail 🚀
Née d’une forte ambition de conquérir les étoiles, Exotrail est une « scale-up » fondée en 2017. Sa mission : développer et commercialiser des moteurs pour petits satellites à l’échelle mondiale.
Nous concevons des produits axés sur l’impact, la livraison rapide et l’amélioration continue. Inspirés par le monde du digital, nous sommes résolument tournés vers le client et portés par un esprit entrepreneurial.
Nous gérons les risques pour dépasser les frontières et obtenir des résultats qui ne seraient pas possibles dans un modèle spatial traditionnel.
Nous mobilisons tous les moyens nécessaires pour soutenir le développement de nos produits, qu’il s’agisse de propulsion ou de services en orbite. Forts d’un esprit d’innovation hérité de nos débuts, nous nous préparons à faire grandir une entreprise industrielle ambitieuse.
We are looking for a Senior AIT Technician at our Massy site.
You will join the AIT department of our In-Orbit Services Business Unit. As a senior technician, you are the technical reference operator of the production line: you perform physical integration operations on spacevan™ satellites in an ISO 8 cleanroom, apply and transmit standards, and ensure full traceability of your work. You will interface directly with AIT teams (AIT Manager, AIT Engineers, Test Manager), Engineering (System, Avionics, Mechanical-Thermal, IV&V - Independent Verification and Validation) and Quality (PA/QA).
Beyond technical skills, we are looking for someone rigorous, autonomous and reliable, capable of working on flight hardware with a constant focus on execution quality and traceability.
Your main tasks and responsibilities will be:
📌 Perform mechanical and electrical integration operations: Carry out integration operations in cleanroom (structural assembly, equipment installation and fastening, harness routing and connection, electrical and RF connections, MLI, SSM, heaters installation, bonding, torquing). Perform in-house PCB assembly operations according to defined assembly work packages. Rigorously apply ISO 8 cleanroom rules, ESD (Electrostatic Discharge), chemical and fluidic safety procedures.
📌 Prepare and execute procedures with full rigour: Prepare operations from defined procedures and work packages. Respect quality hold points, ensure full traceability of operations in as-built manufacturing records (photos, as-run records, logbooks), and systematically report any deviation or non-conformance observed to the AIT Engineer.
📌 Perform quality controls and inspections: Carry out compliance checks and visual inspections at each critical step (incoming, hold points, final configuration). Fill in associated check-lists and records with full rigour. Document NCRs (Non-Conformance Reports) and actively contribute to first-level investigations.
📌 Ensure traceability and documentation: Maintain full traceability of every operation in ERP (Odoo) and manufacturing records: hardware configuration, software version, datasets, logs. Contribute to field lessons learned reporting to the AIT Engineer and the Industrialisation & Methods team.
📌 Support campaigns and contribute to team upskilling: Support the AIT Engineer during functional test and verification phases (EGSE bench connection, test sequence execution per procedures, TM/TC parameter monitoring). Participate in off-site campaigns depending on seniority. Ensure cleanliness, compliance and safety of work areas (5S). Contribute to upskilling future junior technicians.
📌 Education: technical qualification in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronics or equivalent field.
📌 Experience: 7+ years of AIT experience on satellites or space subsystems in cleanroom. Direct experience on flight hardware (FM) is mandatory. Confirmed autonomy on physical integration operations.
📌 Tools proficiency:
Integration and tooling: torque wrench, torque tightening and mechanical alignment tools, MGSE (Mechanical Ground Support Equipment), electrical measurement and dimensional inspection tools
AIT documentation: manufacturing records, check-lists, NCR, as-built, logbooks; practice of ERP/Odoo for operation traceability.
📌 Knowledge:
Satellite system architecture (structure, thermal, avionics, power, propulsion, communications) and AIT integration processes and procedures.
Reading complex mechanical and electrical drawings.
AIT documentation rules: generating manufacturing records, check-lists, NCR, as-built, logbooks.
Installation constraints on environmental test means: vibration table, TVAC (Thermal Vacuum) chamber, anechoic chamber, acoustic test trolley.
Hardware constraints of MGSE and EGSE; ESD knowledge and associated protective equipment.
Applicable standards: ECSS (E-ST-10, Q-ST-70, Q-ST-20) and NASA NPR. ISO 8 cleanroom procedures, ESD, chemical and fluidic safety.
B1V/BE electrical clearance, crane operator clearance (CACES R484) and aerial work platform clearance (CACES R486) appreciated.
📌 Nice to have: background in functional testing (EGSE connection, test sequence execution, TM/TC monitoring), embedded electronics (wiring, continuity, space connector identification) or AIT quality control (internal AIT QC clearance) significantly broadens your scope with us - a discriminating criterion at this stage of our development.
📌Soft skills: execution rigour and zero-defect culture on flight hardware; method and attention to detail in documentation; field autonomy with good collaboration skills; ability to pass on best practices to junior technicians.
📌Fluent in French and English (clear technical communication).