Spacecraft Manufacturing & Electro-Mechanical Engineer

K2 Space Corporation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in the company

Job summary

K2 Space Corporation is seeking a manufacturing-focused engineer to drive design for manufacturability and build flow for large satellite structures. In this role you will collaborate with design teams to ensure producibility, develop new tooling, and implement advanced manufacturing techniques across flight hardware.

Within the first year you’ll define manufacturing flows for subsystems, create tooling and MES integration, and transition processes to production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, aerospace, or other relevant engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in a high volume, rapid production environment in a manufacturing, integration, and/or design engineering role.
• Demonstrated results with product development and/or process improvements.
• Experience setting up a manufacturing/production floor for first article builds.
• Experience designing and implementing technologies for avionics subassembly manufacturing including wire harness manufacturing and PCBA/mechanical enclosure assembly.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with design engineers to ensure design for manufacturability for initial design, flight hardware, and tooling
• Develop innovative manufacturing systems for large spacecraft assemblies, including electromechanical sub‑assemblies, harnessing, welded/bolted structures, and mechanisms
• Create custom tools and processes to support the manufacturing technologies you create including Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software
• Demonstrate the advanced manufacturing techniques on prototypes, working with the design teams to improve the manufacturability of the designs
• Develop the subassembly build flow and iterate to create an efficient production flow for the satellite
• Partner with a team of advanced manufacturing engineers to perform R&D of novel manufacturing technologies for current and future spacecraft products

Skills

Design for manufacturability

Manufacturing process development

Prototype testing

Collaborating with design teams

Electromechanical systems

DFM improvements

Production ramp planning

Lean manufacturing

Education

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

Tools

NX CAD

GD&T

MES software

Job description

K2 Space Corporation is seeking a manufacturing-focused engineer to drive design for manufacturability and build flow for large satellite structures. In this role you will collaborate with design teams to ensure producibility, develop new tooling, and implement advanced manufacturing techniques across flight hardware.

Within the first year you’ll define manufacturing flows for subsystems, create tooling and MES integration, and transition processes to production.