K2 Space
Optical Manufacturing Engineer
$100K–$140K
Los Angeles, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles - Experience
- 3+ years in a high-volume, rapid-production environment in a manufacturing, integration, and/or design engineering role.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical, optical, mechanical, aerospace, or another relevant engineering discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- The hire must be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.
About the job
Develops manufacturing processes, tooling, inspection, and test methods to build and scale space-qualified optical payloads from design through flight hardware production.
What you'll do
- Provide DFX guidance and develop assembly processes, fixtures, tooling, and production flows for optical subsystems.
- Develop inspection, metrology, and end-of-line test methods; document procedures and address build nonconformances.
- Support equipment selection, factory setup, optical assembly integration, and environmental qualification testing.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical, optical, mechanical, aerospace, or another relevant engineering discipline.
- 3+ years of experience in a high-volume, rapid-production environment in manufacturing, integration, and/or design engineering.
- Demonstrated product development and/or process improvement results; experience setting up a manufacturing floor for first-article builds.
- Experience with avionics subassembly manufacturing, DFX for optomechanical designs and drawing review, optical metrology, and FOD/ESD/cleanroom and optical-cleaning practices.
Nice to have
- Proficiency with CAD software (NX or equivalent) and familiarity with optical design and analysis tools (e.g., Zemax, Ansys) and STOP analysis outputs.
- Experience with MES, high-volume optics manufacturing, optical fabrication, environmental testing, or production test code in Python, LabVIEW, MATLAB, or similar.
Pay
$100,000 – $140,000 USD base salary
Tools
NX, Zemax, Ansys, MES, Python, LabVIEW, MATLAB, GSE
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