Aerospace Integration Technician

What You’ll Get To Do

• Perform detailed assembly, alignment, and integration of propulsion system hardware, including combustion components, fluid routing, and instrumentation
• Execute precision mechanical operations: torquing, clocking, fixturing, alignment verification, and critical-to-quality measurements throughout the build
• Assist in developing and maturing build processes by identifying workflow improvements, creating repeatable procedures, and supporting early production tooling and fixture development
• Integrate electrical harnessing, sensors, and instrumentation with careful attention to routing, shielding, and environmental constraints
• Conduct system-level checkouts including leak checks, continuity tests, pressure checks, and instrumentation validation
• Support test operations by preparing hardware, performing configuration changes, troubleshooting system issues, and ensuring integration integrity
• Document builds, capture deviations, and collaborate tightly with engineering to refine designs, tolerances, and manufacturability
• Help establish best practices at Venus from prototype hardware install to a stable production baseline system

What You Have

• Hands-on experience with precision machined components (rocket engines, ICE engines, Jet engines or the like. Valves and high‑pressure fluid systems, or similar)
• Ability to interpret complex CAD drawings, schematics, assembly models, fluid system diagrams, and engineering work instructions
• Skilled with precision tools: calipers, micrometers, height gauges, borescopes, dial indicators, torque tools, and alignment instruments
• Experience assembling and integrating fluid systems 
• Familiarity with clean‑build standards, contamination control, and aerospace-quality mechanical workmanship
• Strong troubleshooting skills across mechanical, electrical, and fluid subsystems
• Comfortable in an R&D environment where designs evolve rapidly, and ability to contribute to the creation of repeatable processes for production
• High attention to detail, strong communication, and a safety‑first mindset
• A strong desire to learn and teach hard earned skills

What Will Set You Apart

• Hands‑on experience assembling and integrating liquid‑propellant rocket engines or pressure‑fed propulsion systems, including injectors, valves, manifolds, ignition hardware, and high‑pressure fluid plumbing
• Ability to validate precision tolerances, torque specifications, flange alignment, seal interfaces, and pressure‑rated fittings during propulsion hardware build‑up
• Strong troubleshooting skills using leak‑check signatures, pressure‑flow data, instrumentation readings, electrical continuity results, and mechanical alignment measurements to identify root causes across propulsion subsystems
• Experience developing or refining assembly sequences, QC checkpoints, torque patterns, contamination‑control steps, and test‑readiness procedures for propulsion hardware
• Familiarity designing or improving tooling and fixtures for propulsion assembly, such as alignment jigs, routing guides, leak‑check adapters, and fixturing for injector or manifold installations
• Comfortable integrating harnessing, sensors, ignition systems, and test instrumentation with proper shielding, routing, connector clocking, and thermal‑protection considerations
• Ability to support early‑stage propulsion development by documenting as‑built configurations, deviations, configuration changes, and test‑driven design feedback
• Experience working with tight‑tolerance, prototype propulsion hardware where precision fit‑up, cleanliness, proper torque, and controlled routing are critical to hot‑fire success