K2 Space
Manager, Solar Engineering
$150K–$250K
Los Angeles, CA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles - Experience
- 5+ years in mechanical and/or electromechanical design and analysis; 1+ years building and leading large, multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, or other relevant engineering discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.
About the job
Leads K2 Space’s solar engineering organization and owns solar-array technology, design, manufacturing, testing, and production delivery for high-power satellites.
What you'll do
- Build and lead the Solar Engineering organization across design, manufacturing, process, and automation.
- Own solar hardware from array and module design through qualification, production, and on-orbit operations.
- Set technical and manufacturing strategy, invest in technologies that improve production rate, reliability, and unit economics, and align executives and cross-functional teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, or another relevant engineering discipline.
- 5+ years of experience with mechanical and/or electromechanical design and analysis in solar or electro-mechanical systems.
- 1+ years of experience building and leading large, multidisciplinary engineering teams, including managing managers and developing senior individual contributors.
- Experience owning a complex engineering function through development, design iteration, production ramp, and sustained delivery; executive-level communication and stakeholder management; experience with CAD or FEA software packages.
Nice to have
- Direct experience leading solar-array engineering for space applications, or scaling engineering organizations to full-rate production in a high-reliability or aerospace environment.
- Experience with robotics, vision-guided assembly, electromechanical controls, aerospace moving assemblies, the named mechanism qualification standards, or practical GD&T.
Pay
$150,000 - $250,000 USD base salary
Tools
CAD, FEA, NASA-STD-5017, SMC-S-016, GSFC-STD-7000, GD&T
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