Optomechanical Engineer

The role

You will own the design and build of precision optomechanical structures that hold optical payloads in space. This role involves mounting lenses and mirrors, designing supporting structures, and ensuring optical alignment through launch and on-orbit operation.

What you will do

• Design optomechanical assemblies from conceptual design through qualification to on-orbit operations
• Own mounting and alignment of lenses and mirrors
• Design mirror support structures for jitter, dynamic stability, and thermal stability
• Own optical alignment and stability budgets
• Lead design reviews from kickoff through qualification
• Drive hardware development including assembly, alignment, and development testing
• Perform hardware trades to steer sub-system and top-level product direction
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish requirements and processes
• Own and refine system deliverables and schedules

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace, optical, or other relevant engineering discipline
• 2 + years of experience in mechanical or optomechanical design and analysis, with a mechanics-heavy background
• Proficiency with 3D CAD software for detailed part and assembly design
• Hands-on experience mounting optics (lenses and mirrors) and designing the structures that support them

Nice to have

• Proficiency with Siemens NX CAD
• Familiarity with STOP (Structural-Thermal-Optical Performance) analysis
• Experience designing, building, and testing precision optomechanical or opto-structural hardware for aerospace applications
• Experience with flexure design, optical bonding, and kinematic mount design for space environments
• Demonstrated ability to own optomechanical hardware or systems within an integrated engineering team outside a classroom setting
• Demonstrated understanding of structural analysis and failure modes of complex mechanical systems in space environments and operations
• Demonstrated experience designing structures for optical stability
• Experience with FEA for structural, modal, and thermal-elastic analysis
• Experience with the practical application of GD&T
• Demonstrated proficiency in the principles of mechanical design, materials, and structural dynamics

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.