Electronics Technician
Space Machines
Electronics Technician
Space Machines
Manufactures space hardware and AI-driven platform
Space Machines Company · Botany, Australia · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-23
Workplace: on_site
Department: Engineering
About Us
Our mission is to safeguard critical space infrastructure by providing the first integrated security platform to see threats, decide fast and respond at scale. Where spacecraft have traditionally been costly, slow to produce and require extensive effort to coordinate, SMC is developing systems that are produced at scale and operated with human-on-the-loop autonomy to drastically reduce the cost and complexity of orbital operations.
As space becomes more congested and contested, the satellites that underpin modern life, including communications, navigation, financial systems, are increasingly exposed. We are developing the vehicles and software to protect them, working with commercial operators and government agencies across allied nations.
Our approach is grounded in economics as much as engineering. The Optimus Viper Rapid Response Vehicle delivers genuine mission capability at a fraction of conventional spacecraft cost, designed for high-volume production and rapid deployment across all orbital regimes. Solstice OS, our AI-driven command and control platform, fuses space domain awareness data and automates mission planning and vehicle coordination, allowing smaller teams to manage larger constellations and respond to emerging situations in seconds rather than hours.
The future of space depends on assets that can be inspected, monitored and protected in orbit. We are building the technology to make that possible.
Why Join Us
We’re a start up. Things move fast, resources are lean, and we’re building as we go.
What we offer is opportunity: to learn at speed, grow with the company, and leave your fingerprints on something that’s never been done before. At Space Machines Company, engineers, innovators, and problem solvers join forces to push the limits of what’s possible.
If you want to build technology designed to protect and power humanity’s future in space and see your work make a visible impact. This is where you’ll do it.
How We Work
We are builders first.
We approach every challenge through a cycle of design, build, test, and refine. Making ideas real, learning from results, and improving with each iteration.
We challenge assumptions to make sure we’re solving the right problems, and we strengthen our solutions through collaboration and feedback.
We use process where it adds value and set it aside where it slows us down. There are a lot of firsts here, and we meet them with curiosity and courage.
We win as one team.
As our Electronics Technician, you live on the bench and in the cleanroom, keeping the flight and ground support electronics of our Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO) capable spacecraft alive through assembly, integration and test.
You will spend your time reworking and repairing populated assemblies, manufacturing and testing flight and EGSE harnesses, running unit and subsystem test campaigns, and keeping the electronics lab in a state where anyone can walk up to a bench and trust what is on it. You will work alongside our electronics designers bringing up boards, standing up test setups and fault-finding to component level and feed manufacturability and testability input back before designs are committed. This is an in-office role at our Sydney (Botany) facility.
In this role, you own outcomes from end to end, including:
Rework & Repair – Repair, rework and modify populated electronic assemblies to flight standard, including fine-pitch surface mount and through-hole work, conformal coating, staking and cleaning. This is the heart of the role.
Harness Manufacture – Manufacture, modify and test flight and EGSE wiring harnesses — cut, crimp, connector assembly, lacing, backshells and potting, through to continuity and insulation resistance verification.
Electronics Lab Ownership – Own the electronics lab end to end: tooling, consumables, calibration status, ESD compliance and bench discipline. The lab works because you make it work.
Test Execution – Run subsystem and unit level test campaigns. Set up and operate test equipment, work to written procedures, capture data and record results with full traceability.
Bring-Up & Fault-Finding – Support in-house electronics development through prototype board bring-up, debugging of test setups, and methodical fault-finding to component level alongside the design team.
Flight Hardware Integration – As part of the AIT team, perform assembly and integration on flight hardware under ESD, FOD and cleanroom controlled conditions, and support environmental test campaigns including vibration, thermal vacuum and EMC including instrumenting the test article and standing up ground support equipment.
Documentation & Nonconformance – Write and red-line work instructions, test procedures and as-built records to a standard presentable to external partners and regulators. Raise and help close non-conformances.
Design Feedback – Provide practical feedback on manufacturability, testability, maintainability and serviceability, early enough to change the outcome.
There is room to grow. If you have the interest, you will be supported on the design of support electronics in house such as break-out boards, test jigs, interface adapters and harness test boxes from requirement through schematic capture, layout and fabrication, with guidance and mentoring from the electronics design team. That is an opportunity in this role, not a prerequisite for it.
You'll thrive in this role if you bring:
A technician's hands — precise, repeatable workmanship on hardware that has to survive launch and then work for years with nobody able to reach it.
Methodical fault-finding — following the evidence to the failing component rather than swapping parts and hoping.
Ownership of the space around you — a lab that is calibrated, stocked, ESD-safe and ready, because you keep it that way.
The judgement to stop — speaking up when something doesn't look right, before it becomes a non-conformance on flight hardware.
Proven experience:
Bonus experience:
You won't get rich quickly. But you'll get:
Competitive salary – Fair pay for hard work. Commensurate with experience and the impact you'll have.
Meaningful equity (ESOP) – Real ownership stake. Stock options that matter because you're joining early enough for them to matter. If we win, you win.
Actual leave – Annual leave plus personal/sick days. Because even warriors need to recover.
Public holidays – All of them.
And freedom. Real freedom to build, decide, and move without waiting for permission. That's not a benefit you'll find in a package description, but it's worth more than most perks on this list.
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Manufactures space hardware and AI-driven platform
Space Machines manufactures space hardware and software and works with governments and space operators to protect critical space infrastructure. Its products include the Optimus Viper rapid response vehicles, which are mass-produced, low-cost platforms that can be deployed at scale to inspect, monitor, and protect assets across all orbital regimes, and Solstice OS, an AI-driven command-and-control platform that fuses space-domain data to automate mission planning, threat assessment, and vehicle coordination. The company differentiates itself by delivering scalable, low-cost autonomous-enabled space capabilities outside the US and by providing the first integrated security platform that lets teams see threats, decide fast, and respond at scale. Its goal is to counter near-peer threats and help democratic nations safeguard satellites that support communications, navigation, and economic activity, by letting smaller teams manage large constellations efficiently.
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