Senior Mechanical Engineer, Spacecraft Structures

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

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