Senior Electrical Manufacturing Engineer

K2 SpaceLos Angeles, CA

seniorPosted 15 Sept 2026

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About the role

<div class="content-intro">K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown, unlocking performance levels previously out of reach across every orbit. Backed by over $1 billion in total funding from leading investors including Altimeter Capital, ICONIQ, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and T. Rowe Price — and with over $1 billion in signed contracts across commercial and US government customers, we're mass-producing the highest-power satellite platforms ever built for missions from LEO to deep space.

The rise of heavy-lift launch vehicles is shifting the industry from an era of mass constraint to one of mass abundance, and we believe this new era demands a fundamentally different class of spacecraft. Engineered to survive the harshest radiation environments and to fully capitalize on today's and tomorrow's massive rockets, K2 satellites deliver unmatched capability at constellation scale and across multiple orbits.

With multiple launches in 2027 and plans to scale to 100 satellites a year, we're Building Bigger — helping develop the solar system and build toward a Kardashev Type II (K2) civilization. If you are a motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and you're excited about contributing to the success of a high-growth Series D-funded company, we'd love for you to apply.</div>The Role&nbsp;

You will partner with design engineers early in the process to ensure manufacturability, build the first prototype, design the build flow and fixturing, and&nbsp;finalize&nbsp;the process for transition to production. Once transitioned, you will lead the effort to scale production and meet K2's ever-growing demand. You will drive new techniques for manufacturing complex PCBAs, harnessing, and integrated electronics systems, and partner closely with mechanical teams on the electromechanical assemblies and machined components these electronics integrate into. In your first 6 months you will develop manufacturing methods and tooling for integrated avionics systems, define manufacturing flows for electronic subsystems, and lead Design-for-Excellence (DFX) guidance across PCBs, PCBAs, machined components, and higher-level assemblies. In your first year you will own the implementation of these advanced manufacturing techniques on flight hardware, scale the technology you develop to high-rate production, and help mentor other engineers on the team.&nbsp;

Responsibilities&nbsp;

<ul>

<li>Lead&nbsp;design-for-excellence&nbsp;reviews with&nbsp;design engineers across PCBs, PCBAs, machined components, and assemblies for&nbsp;initial&nbsp;design, flight hardware, and tooling&nbsp;</li>

<li>Lead the development of&nbsp;innovative manufacturing systems for&nbsp;spacecraft&nbsp;electronic&nbsp;assemblies, including&nbsp;electromechanical sub-assemblies,&nbsp;and&nbsp;harnessing.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Create custom tools&nbsp;and processes to support the manufacturing technologies you create,&nbsp;including Manufacturing Execution System&nbsp;(MES)&nbsp;software&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>

<li>Demonstrate the advanced manufacturing techniques on prototypes, working with the design teams to&nbsp;continuously&nbsp;improve the manufacturability of the designs&nbsp;</li>

<li>Develop the subassembly build flow and&nbsp;iterate to create an efficient&nbsp;production flow for the satellite&nbsp;and ensure that&nbsp;build times align with current takt times&nbsp;</li>

<li>Mentor and&nbsp;provide&nbsp;technical guidance to junior&nbsp;Manufacturing Engineers, technicians,&nbsp;and design peers on electronics manufacturing best practices&nbsp;</li>

<li>Partner with a team of advanced manufacturing engineers to perform R&amp;D of novel manufacturing technologies for current and future spacecraft products&nbsp;</li>

</ul>

Qualifications&nbsp;

<ul>

<li>Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical,&nbsp;aerospace,&nbsp;or other relevant engineering discipline&nbsp;</li>

<li>6+ years of experience in a&nbsp;high volume, rapid production environment in a&nbsp;manufacturing,&nbsp;integration,&nbsp;and/or&nbsp;design&nbsp;engineering role&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>

<li>Demonstrated&nbsp;track record&nbsp;leading&nbsp;product development and/or process improvements&nbsp;</li>

<li>Strong understanding of&nbsp;IPC standards (e.g., IPC-A-610, IPC-A-600, J-STD-001) for PCB/PCBA workmanship and inspection&nbsp;</li>

<li>Strong&nbsp;understanding of how to&nbsp;set&nbsp;up a manufacturing/production floor for first article builds&nbsp;and&nbsp;transitioning from low&nbsp;to high-rate manufacturing.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Deep understanding of&nbsp;avionics subassembly manufacturing&nbsp;technologies,&nbsp;including&nbsp;PCBA assembly,&nbsp;wire harness&nbsp;manufacturing&nbsp;and PCBA/mechanical enclosure&nbsp;integration&nbsp;</li>

<li>Strong understanding&nbsp;DFX&nbsp;guidance to design teams across PCBs, PCBAs, machined components, and mechanical assemblies&nbsp;</li>

<li>Strong understanding of GD&amp;T and mechanical assembly drawings, with the ability to review and provide feedback on&nbsp;electrical and&nbsp;mechanical designs&nbsp;</li>

<li>Good understanding of&nbsp;conformal coating processes (selective spray, dip, or brush application) and associated inspection/rework methods for PCBAs, per standards such as IPC-CC-830 and NASA-STD-8739.1&nbsp;</li>

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Nice to&nbsp;Have&nbsp;

<ul>

<li>Strong&nbsp;understanding&nbsp;and&nbsp;track record&nbsp;of&nbsp;tooling&nbsp;design&nbsp;for&nbsp;electromechanical subassemblies&nbsp;and electronics&nbsp;</li>

<li>Demonstrated&nbsp;ability to&nbsp;independently&nbsp;develop&nbsp;production processes from the ground up,&nbsp;including driving design improvements for manufacturing&nbsp;</li>

<li>Strong understanding of technician workflows and build tooling, with&nbsp;a track record&nbsp;of working closely with production&nbsp;teams to implement feedback-driven&nbsp;process improvements.&nbsp;Experience with aerospace manufacturing standards such as&nbsp;soldering standards,&nbsp;torque specifications,&nbsp;and quality assurance standards&nbsp;</li>

<li>Familiarity with CAD software (NX or equivalent) and GD&amp;T&nbsp;</li>

<li>Strong understanding and&nbsp;experience working with MES, with the ability&nbsp;to set up&nbsp;the&nbsp;foundation for procedure creation, template generation&nbsp;an

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