Senior Harness Design Engineer

The role

You will be responsible for harness and wiring system design, analysis, testing and integration on large, high-power satellites. You will serve as the Responsible Engineer for harness system design and components including connectors, wire, cable, instrumentation, and heaters.

What you will do

• Serve as Responsible Engineer for harness system design for bus avionics, mechanisms, RF systems, and payloads
• Define interface control documents for avionics boxes and bulkheads
• Design, analyze, and release harnessing and secondary mounting hardware in CAD and production drawings
• Drive design trades to reduce cost and select harness components
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineering and technicians to solve in process issues
• Execute development and qualification testing of harness components and assemblies
• Collaborate with cross functional engineering teams to capture requirements and integrate design

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering or any equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5+ years of experience in electrical harness design, routing, production, and system integration
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and high velocity start-up atmosphere
• Creative problem solver that can assess risk and make collaborative design and development decisions

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with environmental testing for space harnessing such as thermal, thermal vacuum, vibration, shock, radiation, and EMI/EMC testing per SMC-S-016
• Competence with electrical test equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes, network analyzers, etc.)
• Strong presentation experience in highly technical design forums and reviews
• Proficient with NX or similar CAD software including electrical harness routing
• Experience with practical application of GD&T and FEA

Benefits

• paid time off
• medical/dental/vision coverage
• life insurance
• paid parental leave
• many other perks

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. person as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license

About the company

K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown for missions from LEO to deep space. The company is mass-producing high-power satellite platforms and is a high-growth Series D-funded company.