K2 Space
Tooling Engineer
$90K–$140K
Los Angeles, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Dec 12, 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles - Experience
- 1+ years of industry experience; CAD or FEA experience may be professional, academic, entrepreneurial, or hobby-based.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, or another 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, testing, and production support of custom tooling and material-handling systems for satellite production.
What you'll do
- Design and fabricate tooling and material-handling systems for satellite buses and related systems.
- Lead subsystem production fixture development from kickoff through production; perform tooling sizing and structural analysis and improve production operations.
- Support ground test setups, flight hardware, development fixtures, customer tooling, and cross-functional project planning.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, or another relevant engineering discipline.
- Experience with CAD or FEA software packages, from professional, academic, entrepreneurial, or hobby settings.
- 1+ years of industry experience with mechanical and/or electromechanical design and analysis.
- 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
$90,000 - $140,000 USD base salary
Tools
CAD, FEA, GD&T, NX (Unigraphics), Teamcenter PLM, Simcenter 3D, Femap, Hypermesh
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