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Role Purpose Lead the controlled assembly, integration, verification and environmental-test readiness of a flight optical payload from precision optical/mechanical subassemblies through telescopeCamera integration, payload characterization and delivery.

The role owns AIT execution, technical readiness, configuration traceability, test evidence and anomaly closure for a high-performance Earth-observation imaging instrument.

About the Team **You join a tight, multidisciplinary payload group that owns the MSI instrument end-to-end: mission-driven requirements, optical/opto-mechanical design, camera + control electronics, firmware/FPGA, and hands-on integration testing.

We operate like a true startup engineering squad: direct communication, rapid problem-solving, and shared ownership. Decisions are made with a systems mindset, and plans turn into hardware quickly. Expect deep collaboration with data, business, and spacecraft teams as we mature the payload from prototype to flight-ready hardware.

This is a agile, hands-on role. Priorities, interfaces and test plans will evolve as hardware and programme maturity advance. The successful candidate is adaptable, calm under pressure, comfortable moving between detailed shop-floor execution and system-level decision-making, and able to create practical structure without slowing development momentum.

Key Responsibilities **- Own the payload AIT plan, integration flow, verification matrix, test schedule, resource/GSE readiness and risk register.

- Lead optical and opto-mechanical assembly, precision alignment, shimming, bonding, torque-controlled installation, cleanliness control and as-built metrology.
- Lead AIT of the payload to Satellite structure with high precision.
- Lead telescope and camera performance verification: wavefront/interferometry, focus,



boresight, MTF, PSF, EFFL, distortion, resolution, radiometry/RSR and image-quality characterization.
- Lead OFE-to-CE integration: FPA alignment, thermal/mechanical interfaces, harnessing, grounding/bonding, detector checkout, timing/data interfaces, firmware compatibility and image acquisition.
- Plan and execute functional, vibration, shock and TVAC campaigns, including pre-/post-environmental baselines and optical re-verification.
- Define, review and execute controlled procedures, travellers, test data sheets and reports; ensure traceability from requirement to raw data and acceptance result.
- Chair or support TRRs, MRRs, pre-test/post-test reviews and daily AIT reviews; make evidence-based go/no-go recommendations.
- Lead anomaly containment, NCR/discrepancy investigation, root-cause analysis coordination, corrective actions and re-test closure.
- Coordinate closely with optical, mechanical, electronics, thermal, software/FPGA, quality, spacecraft, supplier and external test-house teams.
- Build a disciplined but agile AIT culture: identify issues early, prioritise non-destructive diagnostics, communicate directly and adapt plans while protecting flight configuration and quality.

Requirements

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Optical, Mechanical, Aerospace, Electronics Engineering, Physics or related discipline.
- 8+ years in precision optical, electro-optical or space-hardware integration and test; demonstrated leadership of complex AIT/AIV activities preferred.
- Hands-on experience in optical alignment, opto-mechanical assembly, optical metrology and test-data analysis.
- Working knowledge of telescope/imaging metrics: WFE, MTF, PSF, EFFL, distortion, focus, boresight, radiometry and spectral response.**

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📌 Space Optical Payload AIT Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 GalaxEye Space
📍 Bengaluru