Senior Mechanical Engineer

Albedo; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Albedo in Broomfield, CO, is hiring a Mechanical Engineer to design precision hardware for VLEO spacecraft. You’ll own the mechanical allocations, tolerances, and fabrication drawings, and you’ll collaborate with machinists and suppliers to ensure manufacturability and performance.

This role includes lab metrology, environmental testing support, and coordinating with optical, thermal, AI&T, and systems teams to land constraints early, drive reliability, and advance our next‑gen buses and

Qualifications

• Owned a tolerance stack‑up and closed it.
• Familiar with structural and thermal‑elastic analysis.
• Experience with fabrication drawings and GD&T.

Responsibilities

• Design mechanical hardware for spacecraft product lines including structures and mounts.
• Own tolerances and stack-up analysis to ensure performance.
• Support optical alignment, metrology, and integration in lab.
• Coordinate with optical design, systems, thermal, and AI&T teams early in planning.

Skills

Tolerance analysis

Mechanical design

GD&T

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Be one of the Bedo 100

Albedo is making Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) mainstream, building the infrastructure to enable every satellite mission to enter this new orbital domain. We build buses, integrated satellites, and turnkey missions for customers to thrive in VLEO, below 300 km, where proximity compounds performance and drag self‑cleans debris. As part of the first 100 employees at Albedo, you will have a big impact on Albedo’s trajectory to proliferating VLEO — whether you’re advancing hardware to increase satellite longevity, scaling production for large constellations, building next-gen flight and ground software to push performance, or enabling missions that matter for national security and our day-to-day life here on Earth.

How We Operate:

Albedo takes a first-principles approach — in space and in business. We move with speed, take calculated risks, and learn quickly. We use AI regularly to create leverage in every discipline across the company. We work in-person at our Broomfield, CO HQ to maximize team and company productivity. We work hard and with urgency to compound our first‑mover advantage.

Who We're Looking For:

Builders who want to own outcomes, not tasks. Systems thinkers who balance precision with iteration while thinking about the big picture. Individuals who are energized by creating a category rather than competing in an existing one. You’ll join a team that has already proven what others said wasn’t feasible and is now scaling and upgrading our VLEO buses & payloads to serve mission sets across sensing, communications, and responsive operations.

What You’ll Do

• Design precision mechanical hardware across our spacecraft product lines and for Verity and follow‑on payloads: structures, assemblies, boxes, mechanisms, sensors and actuators, optic mounts, optical benches, metering structures, flexures, and kinematic and bonded interfaces.
• Own the mechanical side of a performance error budget: allocate tolerances, run the stack-up, and prove the allocation closes.
• Responsible for mechanical allocations for fabrication, alignment, and stability, contributing to the system‑level wavefront error (WFE) budget and driving mechanical performance through daily cross‑functional engineering tradeoffs.
• Have some familiarity with structural and thermal‑elastic analysis, and be able to work with the mechanical analysis team to support FEA and optical performance analysis
• Design for athermalization and dimensional stability: material selection, athermal mount schemes, and the creep, hysteresis, and gravity‑release behavior that decides whether alignment holds.
• Own your parts through fabrication: drawings and GD&T, vendor interaction, inspection, and the manufacturability conversation with machinists.
• Support optical alignment and integration hands‑on. Be in the lab for metrology and integration of the hardware you designed.
• Support environmental testing and root‑cause anomalies when hardware and analysis disagree.
• Partner with optical design, systems, thermal, and AI&T so mechanical constraints land in the plan early, not as surprises.

Your Ideal Skills And Experience

• You have owned a tolerance stack‑up or mechanical error budget and driven it to closure, in any domain where a mechanical structure had to hold a demanding performance requirement.