Senior Optomechanical Engineer

5 hours, 37 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
IoT and Embedded Systems

K2 Space Corporation

K2 Space builds high-powered satellite platforms and satellite buses for missions across LEO, MEO, and GEO, emphasizing higher payload power, large payload mass, vertical integration, and in-house manufacturing.

Defense and Space Manufacturing
51-200
Founded 2022
$180M raised

Description

  • Design optomechanical assemblies, including optical benches, mirror mounts, lens cells, and support structures, from concept through qualification and on-orbit operations.
  • Own mounting and alignment of lenses and mirrors using appropriate mounting schemes such as kinematic and semi-kinematic mounts, flexures, and bonded interfaces.
  • Design mirror support structures with attention to jitter, dynamic stability, deformation, and thermal stability.
  • Own optical alignment and stability budgets and translate wavefront and pointing decisions into mechanical designs.
  • Lead design reviews from kickoff through qualification and beyond.
  • Drive hardware development, including hands-on assembly, alignment, testing, analysis correlation, and hardware iterations.
  • Perform hardware trades that influence subsystem and top-level product direction.
  • Collaborate with optical, thermal, structures, GNC, metrology, and manufacturing teams to define requirements, processes, and best practices.
  • Own and refine system deliverables and schedules throughout development and production.
  • Define optomechanical requirements, create concepts and trades, perform preliminary and detailed analysis, and produce development hardware.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace, optical, or another relevant engineering discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience in mechanical or optomechanical design and analysis.
  • Mechanics-heavy background.
  • Proficiency with 3D CAD software for detailed part and assembly design.
  • Hands-on experience mounting optics and designing supporting structures.
  • Proficiency with Siemens NX CAD (preferred).
  • Familiarity with STOP (Structural-Thermal-Optical Performance) analysis and closing pointing/wavefront error budgets (preferred).
  • Experience designing, building, and testing precision optomechanical or opto-structural hardware for aerospace applications (preferred).
  • Experience with flexure design, optical bonding, and kinematic mount design for space environments (preferred).
  • Experience with FEA for structural, modal, and thermal-elastic analysis (preferred).
  • Experience with GD&T, including tolerancing of precision optical interfaces (preferred).
  • Understanding of structural analysis, failure modes, mechanical design, materials, and structural dynamics in space environments (preferred).
  • Must be a U.S. person or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $120,000 to $210,000 plus equity.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Paid time off.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Life insurance.
  • Additional perks and benefits package.
  • Reasonable accommodation support during the application and interview process.

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