Harness Design Engineer
- Onsite
- All software engineering jobs
- Full time
- Hardware
About the role
Wanna join the adventure?
Who We Are
Loft: Space Made Simple.
Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.
We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more. Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months. With more than 30 missions flown, Loft’s flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.
With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.
As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.
Loft Orbital is redefining how satellites are built and deployed. We provide a fast, simple, and reliable path to orbit by combining standardized space vehicles, mission-specific payload integration, and end-to-end mission execution.
As a Harness Design Engineer, you’ll help design the electrical harnesses that connect spacecraft systems, avionics, payloads, and test equipment. You’ll work across electrical systems, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, and integration & test to turn electrical interfaces into reliable, production-ready hardware.
This is a great opportunity for an earlier career candidate with a strong electrical engineering foundation and an interest in developing expertise in spacecraft harness design.
About this role:
- Design electrical harnesses for spacecraft, payloads, and test systems.
- Translate schematics, ICDs, pinouts, and electrical interfaces into harness designs.
- Create harness schematics and 3D harness assemblies using Creo.
- Develop manufacturing drawings, bills of material, and harness documentation.
- Support harness fabrication, inspection, integration, testing, and troubleshooting.
- Contribute to harness libraries, design standards, and continuous improvement.
Must haves:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related field
- Strong foundation in electrical engineering, circuits, electronics, and electrical interfaces.
- Ability to read electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, pinouts, and interface documentation.
- Strong attention to detail and interest in precise, hands-on engineering work.
- Ability to learn new engineering tools and collaborate across electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
Nice to haves:
- Experience with Creo, SolidWorks, CATIA, or another 3D CAD system.
- Experience with electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, block diagrams, or connectivity data.
- Familiarity with connectors, wires, cables, shielding, grounding, strain relief, or EMI/EMC.
- Hands-on experience with electronics, PCBs, soldering, crimping, electrical test equipment, or hardware integration.
- Coursework or project experience in embedded systems, RF, signal integrity, power electronics, or high-speed digital design.
Some of our awesome benefits:
- Equity, we want you to have an active role in our success
- Up to 35 days of Paid Time Off (vacations & RTT ) and flexible working hours, we want you to be at your best
- Health and life insurance, we care about your health
- Lunch Vouchers, because let’s be honest, we love food! (we even have a slack channel about it #loft-gourmand)
- Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse to learn from our differences
- Company and team off-sites and many other events to work & celebrate together
- Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable
Who We Are
Loft: Space Made Simple.
Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.
We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more. Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months. With more than 30 missions flown, Loft’s flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.
With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.
As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.
