K2 Space
Principal Tooling Engineer
$175K–$200K
Los Angeles, CA +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles - Experience
- 8+ years of industry experience with mechanical and/or electromechanical design and analysis.
- 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
Owns the design, fabrication, and delivery of custom tooling and structures that support satellite production, operations, and large-scale qualification testing.
What you'll do
- Design and fabricate tooling and material-handling systems for satellite buses and subsystems.
- Lead subsystem production fixture development from kickoff through production, including hands-on development, sizing, structural analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Support ground test setups, flight hardware, customer tooling, and cross-functional definition of requirements, methods, and schedules.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, or another relevant engineering discipline.
- 8+ years of industry experience with mechanical and/or electromechanical design and analysis.
- Experience with CAD or FEA software packages; experience may be professional, academic, entrepreneurial, or hobby-based.
- Hands-on fabrication experience and experience designing, building, and testing mechanical assemblies and tooling for aerospace or terrestrial applications.
Nice to have
- Experience with shipping, materials handling, clean room operations, or practical GD&T application.
- Experience with NX (Unigraphics), Teamcenter PLM, or structural analysis tools such as Simcenter 3D, Femap, or Hypermesh.
Pay
USD 175,000 - USD 200,000 base salary
Tools
CAD, FEA, GD&T, NX (Unigraphics), Teamcenter PLM, Simcenter 3D, Femap, Hypermesh
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