Lead Harness Design Engineer for Mega Satellites

Mundi; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

K2 Space is hiring a Senior Harness Design Engineer to lead harness system design for bus avionics, mechanisms, RF systems, and payloads on Mega and Giga satellites.

You will define interfaces, drive CAD releases, and collaborate with manufacturing to ensure reliability in high-rate production for LEO/MEO/GEO missions. Requires 5+ years in aerospace harness design and a degree in engineering.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of electrical harness design experience in aerospace or related high-velocity environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced startup atmosphere with strong problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Responsible Engineer for harness system design for bus avionics, mechanisms, RF systems, and payloads across Mega and Giga satellites.
• Define interface control documents for avionics boxes and bulkheads to optimize system diagrams and schematics.
• Design, analyze, and release harnessing and secondary mounting hardware in CAD and production drawings based on system schematics and vehicle layout.
• Drive design trades to reduce cost and select harness components such as connectors, contacts, wire/cables, shield braid, heaters, RTDs and more.
• Collaborate closely with the manufacturing engineering and technicians on the harness and electro-mechanical subassembly teams to solve in process issues and ensure high reliability.
• Execute development and qualification testing of harness components and assemblies for critical space missions in MEO and GEO orbits.
• Collaborate closely with the cross functional engineering teams to capture requirements, lead design trades, and integrate the design into the spacecraft systems.
• Effectively manage and communicate project plan, milestones, and schedule execution.

Skills

Harness design

Routing

System integration

CAD drafting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering

Tools

NX CAD

Multimeters

Oscilloscopes

Network analyzers

Job description

K2 Space is hiring a Senior Harness Design Engineer to lead harness system design for bus avionics, mechanisms, RF systems, and payloads on Mega and Giga satellites.

You will define interfaces, drive CAD releases, and collaborate with manufacturing to ensure reliability in high-rate production for LEO/MEO/GEO missions. Requires 5+ years in aerospace harness design and a degree in engineering.