Sr. Harness Engineer

About the role

Venturi Astrolab, Inc. (Astrolab) is pioneering new ways to explore and operate on distant planetary bodies. We are singularly focused on designing, building, and operating a fleet of multi-purpose commercial planetary rovers to extend and enhance humanity’s presence in the solar system. We are seeking motivated, creative, and exceptional people to join our world-class team.

Responsibilities

• Cook up with Avionics Engineers to define and manage system level harness schematics for flight hardware, test, and GSE assets.
• Identify and maintain a library of aerospace-grade materials, including connectors, backshells, shielding, wires, and cables for signal, power, data, and RF.
• Use 3D CAD tools to design routed harness models, ensuring proper physical architecture based on aerospace standards for bend radii, strain relief, retention, isolation, and separation, within complex vehicle assemblies.
• Create 2D flat harness drawings and formboards for production.
• Support first-article builds and resolve manufacturing non-conformances.
• Essential analyses such as voltage drop, current derating, and EMI/EMC shielding effectiveness and resolve designs to defined standards.
• Cook up qualification tests like continuity, isolation, and vibration/thermal cycling.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in wire harness design (aerospace, vehicles, robotics, defense, or similarly rigorous environments).
• Proficiency with CAD tools and PLM systems; comfortable releasing production drawings.
• Ability to interpret and create complex wiring diagrams, schematics, and interface documentation.
• Strong understanding of harness design and manufacturing methods (buildability, inspection, testability, and rework considerations).
• Experience with aerospace-grade materials/component selection and design for weight, cost, and manufacturability.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting harness issues to root cause, with a corrective-action mindset.
• Familiarity with one or more relevant standards, such as: IPC/WHMA-A-620, NASA-STD-8739.4 / 8739.6, NASA-STD-6016, SAE AS22759, J-STD-001.
• Strong communication skills and ability to manage interfaces across multiple engineering teams.
• Self-directed and comfortable solving open-ended problems with speed and rigor.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in aerospace or launch vehicle applications.
• Knowledge of redundancy strategies for flight-critical systems.
• Experience designing for high vibration, vacuum, thermal cycling, and harsh EMI environments.
• Background in harness-level or system-level signal integrity analysis for high-speed data interfaces (Ethernet, SpaceWire, LVDS).
• Proficiency with Siemens NX and Teamcenter.
• Experience with harness-specific design tools such as E3 Zuken.

Skills

• Hands-on experience troubleshooting harness issues to root cause, with a corrective-action mindset.
• Experience with aerospace-grade materials/component selection and design for weight, cost, and manufacturability.
• Strong understanding of harness design and manufacturing methods (buildability, inspection, testability, and rework considerations).
• Experience with aerospace-grade materials/component selection and design for weight, cost, and manufacturability.
• Experience with aerospace-grade materials/component selection and design for weight, cost, and manufacturability.
• Experience with aerospace-grade materials/component selection and design for weight, cost, and manufacturability.

Benefits

• Equity ownership in the company.
• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health support.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Flexible PTO and parental leave.
• Home office set up reimbursement.
• Weekly lunch stipend, plus complimentary snacks and beverages on-site.
• Once a month social hour on-site with food and drinks.

Pay

$169,000 - $187,000 / year

Schedule

Full-time