Building the largest satellites in orbit. Ultra-powerful, scalable platforms engineered for LEO, MEO, GEO and cislunar missions. Explore the next-generation of satellites. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, First Round and ICONIQ.
About the role
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.
What they're looking for
- Build, align, calibrate, automate, and maintain custom free-space and fiber-optic test systems, including optics-intensive hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure
- Plan and execute experiments that characterize optical components and assemblies, isolate performance-degradation mechanisms, and quantify their effect on end-to-end system performance
- Design, specify, procure, and validate custom optics, optomechanical components, calibration hardware, fixtures, and test equipment
- Develop and qualify repeatable optical fabrication and assembly processes for high volume production, including fiber splicing, adhesive bonding, alignment, cleaning, inspection, and test
- Support environmental qualification, reliability testing, payload integration, flight-readiness activities, and on-orbit commissioning. Troubleshoot anomalies and help drive root-cause-based hardware or process changes
- Communicate technical work through design reviews, test plans and reports, drawings, specifications, procedures, and configuration-controlled data
More about this role
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...
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