Aerospace Opto-Mechanical Design Engineer

Impulse Space; Redondo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, Vision & Dental

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Impulse Space is seeking an Opto-Mechanical Design Engineer to support development of precision optical systems for spacecraft. This role focuses on mechanical design of optical assemblies, telescope structures, lens barrels, detector mounts, mirror mounts, baffles, alignment hardware, and pointing mechanisms for optical payloads.

This engineer will help turn optical concepts into flight hardware: robust, alignable, manufacturable, testable, and stable through launch and on-orbit environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience with mechanical design, precision hardware, opto-mechanical systems, mechanisms, aerospace hardware, or related engineering work.
• CAD experience with NX, SolidWorks, Creo, CATIA, or similar software.
• Understanding of mechanical drawings, GD&T, tolerance analysis, materials, fasteners, manufacturing processes, and assembly constraints.

Responsibilities

• Design opto-mechanical hardware for spacecraft optical systems, including lens barrels, telescope structures, detector mounts, optical benches, mirror mounts, baffles, flexures, kinematic mounts, and precision alignment features.
• Design mechanisms used in optical systems, including gimbals, focus mechanisms, launch locks, adjustable mounts, fast steering mirror interfaces, voice-coil or limited-angle actuation systems, motorized stages, and pointing assemblies.
• Develop mechanical architectures that support optical performance requirements such as element spacing, decenter, tilt, detector placement, boresight alignment, line-of-sight stability, and alignment retention.
• Work with optical engineers to convert optical prescriptions, lens layouts, chief ray constraints, pupil locations, detector tolerances, and stray light constraints into practical mechanical designs.
• Support the development of athermalized optical barrels and precision camera/telescope assemblies for high-accuracy star tracker and optical payload applications.
• Create CAD models, drawings, tolerance stackups, GD&Ts, BOMs, interface control documents, assembly procedures, and test fixture designs.

Skills

OPTO-MECHANICAL DESIGN

GD&T proficiency

CAD software NX/SolidWorks/Creo/CATIA

Aerospace hardware knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, or related field

Tools

NX

SolidWorks

Creo

CATIA

Job description

Impulse Space is seeking an Opto-Mechanical Design Engineer to support development of precision optical systems for spacecraft. This role focuses on mechanical design of optical assemblies, telescope structures, lens barrels, detector mounts, mirror mounts, baffles, alignment hardware, and pointing mechanisms for optical payloads.

This engineer will help turn optical concepts into flight hardware: robust, alignable, manufacturable, testable, and stable through launch and on-orbit environments.