Head of Assembly, Integration And Test

ReOrbit is looking for an experienced AIT professional to join our head office in Helsinki to lead our AIT group, providing strategic definition to our approach to AIT across multiple sites to ensure mission success. 

As our Head of AIT you will be responsible for planning, leading, and executing all spacecraft assembly, integration, and testing activities across the company’s facilities. This role ensures readiness and flawless execution of AIT procedures for flight hardware, from subassembly through environmental testing to launch site integration. As we scale to manufacturing and launching multiple satellites in parallel, the Head of AIT will play a critical role in building repeatable, high-reliability processes and growing a world-class technical team

It's an exciting chance to join a dynamic start-up, with the opportunity to make a real impact by defining our AIT strategy and creating a world class team which will truly influence the direction and overall success of ReOrbit.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the AIT strategy across multiple programs and sites, ensuring consistency, safety, and mission success.
• Build and manage a multidisciplinary AIT team across clean room and lab facilities.
• Ensure all clean rooms, test labs, and integration areas are properly equipped, maintained, and certified.
• Lead the specification and commissioning of new AIT infrastructure as the company scales.
• Oversee all functional, environmental, RF, and system-level testing, ensuring flight hardware meets spec.
• Collaborate with launch providers and ground support teams for launch campaign readiness and operations.
• Own the interface with quality assurance during AIT phases, ensuring full traceability and documentation.

Skills and Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in spacecraft AIT, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership or management role.
• Demonstrated success in delivering hardware for orbital missions, from integration through launch.
• Proven ability to scale AIT operations across multiple spacecraft or constellation programs.
• Deep understanding of spacecraft systems, clean room procedures, and environmental testing standards.
• Experience with small satellite platforms, modular AIT strategies, or high-throughput production environments.

What does ReOrbit do?

ReOrbit builds the foundation for the next generation of space applications by transforming satellites into truly intelligent, interconnected platforms, defined by software. Our satellite design philosophy revolves around the idea that satellites must network, communicate with each other and thus improve mission efficiency. How can this be achieved? Thanks to a flexible software-first architecture, where all these aspects are dealt with upfront in the mission concept, as integrated functionalities.

ReOrbit’s top-notch team of software engineers and system architects develop in-house software, procure hardware from the best-in-class suppliers, and seamlessly integrate the components to create flexible and secure satellites. Today, we are a rapidly growing company building a very strong multidisciplinary team to support our activities. We are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with a subsidiary in Bariloche, Argentina.

Working at ReOrbit

At ReOrbit, we are focused on building a strong team as we believe nothing can be accomplished without innovative, humble and curious minds working together on a common goal. We’re all about fostering an inclusive, dynamic environment where equality and diversity are our strength. 

We offer

• Challenging but rewarding environment – you will thrive if you are always reflecting on how to make things better. Your ideas will be heard.
• Ambitious and supportive network of people, who are motivated to change the space industry, bringing expertise from both classic and new space .
• Benefits such as lunch vouchers, events, parties, occupational health care and additional health insurance - but most importantly a possibility to be a part of a unique and diverse team, connected by similar mindset and sense of humor. 
• We like to spend time together! You can choose activities whichever is to your liking – runOrbit, climbOrbit; become ping pong or board games champion.
• We support relocation and integration into Finnish society, find some experiences about relocation here

Please, submit your application as soon as possible - we are excited to hear from you and can’t wait to discover your unique skills and experiences.

For agencies: We do not accept unsolicited CVs for our open vacancies. Any CV sent to our team unsolicited will reserve us the right to pursue a candidate without obligation to the sender. All candidate submissions must be conducted through our official channels and in accordance with our terms of engagement.