AIT Mechanical Test Engineer

Role highlights:

• AIT Mechanical Test Engineer

• Location: Espoo, Finland

• Department: Global Manufacturing Organisation

• Reports to: AIT Engineering Team Manager

• Employment type: Permanent

• Workplace model: On-site

• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required)
  

Why this role matters:

As an AIT Mechanical Test Engineer, you own mechanical and environmental test readiness for ICEYE's satellite platform: vibration, shock, mass properties, and fastened or mechanism interfaces. You will personally set up, run, and troubleshoot vibration test campaigns end-to-end, working in close partnership with structural and mechanical designers to ensure every subsystem can be built and verified reliably as ICEYE scales GEN4 satellite production toward a weekly build cadence.

Who We Are
ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. We deliver persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth.

ICEYE owns the world's largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. To our customers we provide intelligence with unmatched quality, latency and revisit times, in any weather, day or night. To governments who choose to operate their own constellation we provide this proven capability as a sovereign system.

ICEYE-built constellations serve customers in defence and intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance and emergency management. We enable fast decisions that contribute to a safer future.

Founded and headquartered in Finland, ICEYE operates globally with over 1000 employees across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

Your day-to-day responsibilities

• Own mechanical and environmental test readiness for vibration testing (random vibration, sine burst/sweep, sine-on-random/random-on-random, resonance search and dwell), shock, mass properties/CG verification, and fastener torque and thread-locking integrity testing

• Personally set up, operate, and troubleshoot the vibration test system (electrodynamic shaker, slip table, head expander) and its control software, including electronic, hydraulic, and pneumatic sub-systems

• Design or evaluate test fixtures, considering structural dynamics principles and force/overturning moment budgets, and coordinate fixture fabrication

• Author test procedures and reports that are technically correct, version-controlled, and executable on the floor without interpretation

• Act as the mechanical test point of contact for engineering and production when structural behaviour during test is unclear, unexpected, or blocking

• Work in a "2-in-a-box" partnership with structures and mechanical designers to derive and verify test levels and assess testability of design changes

• Own Tier-2 technical support for mechanical test non-conformances and anomalies -- triage, root cause, corrective action, and closure

• Analyse test data and communicate results and recommendations clearly to engineering teams, while mentoring AIT technicians on mechanical test execution
  

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