Sr. Avionics Development Technician

Job Description

Job Description

Long Wall Company was created in 2025 to accelerate missile defense technology for the U.S. and our allies. Building on the RS1 and GS0 launch systems, Long Wall develops containerized, mass-producible missile defense systems and offers rapid, low-cost flight testing. We believe that the future of global security and stability require defensive technology that is lower cost, higher performing, better tested, and more broadly distributed than is possible today. Join us.

What we look for

Mission-Driven Problem Solvers. The aerospace frontier demands ingenuity. We want engineers who approach challenges with curiosity, embrace failure as a learning opportunity, and stay focused on delivering the best solution for the mission.

Total Ownership. We seek engineers who take full responsibility for delivering flight-ready work while recognizing that no one succeeds alone. The best engineers make their teammates better, knowing that complementary skills create force multiplication and drive mission success.

Description

We are looking for an experienced avionics technician (S4 or S5) who is excited about manufacturing development and production hardware for launch vehicles and defense systems. We seek team members who can think critically to improve hardware designs and manufacturing processes, and deliver high quality hardware to our programs. Avionics technicians build and test components and electrical assemblies our launch vehicles and defense systems. Avionics technicians are responsible for a broad range of responsibilities including PCB assembly and rework, electro-mechanical assemblies, sensors / transducers, cable and wire harnessing, final integration, operating thermal chambers, functional testing, and perform software driven tests.

Responsibilities :

• Assemble PCBs into product chassis and support final vehicle integration by installing electrical sub-assemblies and routing cables and harnesses
• Assemble electro-mechanical components along with the building of circuit boards and small electrical assemblies
• Fabricate high quality, high reliability cable and wire harnesses
• Operate complex automated equipment, including routine inspection, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Document anomalies and non-conformities and associated rework to quickly return non-conforming product back into normal workflow
• Perform functional testing of built hardware, including setups, instrumentation, test execution, create / upload reports, and teardown
• Ensure lab equipment, tooling and consumables available and maintained to a high standard
• Work closely with manufacturing and test engineers to provide input and develop assembly processes and test procedures
• Assist with the development of production processes for first time production
• Instruct and mentor junior avionics technicians

Basic Minimum Qualifications :

Preferred Skills and Other Experience :

Additional Requirements :

This is the lowest to highest compensation range we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

In addition to base pay and equity, we offer :

ITAR Requirement

This position requires access to information protected under US export control laws, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and / or the Export Administration Regulations.  As such, US person status (including US citizens, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted U.S. asylum status, or individuals admitted in U.S. refugee status) is a required qualification for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, genetics, or citizenship status (when otherwise legally authorized to work and access export-controlled data) and will not be discriminated against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We encourage applicants of all ages.