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Own compensation and equity strategy, including benchmarking, pay frameworks, offer reviews, merit and promotion recommendations, Carta equity administration, and equity modeling. Build workforce dashboards and analytics for leadership, maintain HR data integrity, and support workforce planning. Lead responsible AI tool adoption across People Operations and provide compensation and workforce analyses for executives, board materials, and investors.

Own spacecraft and constellation hardware reliability strategies, requirements, models, allocations, and testing programs. Lead HALT/HASS, accelerated life testing, reliability growth, statistical modeling, root-cause investigations, FRACAS, and corrective actions. Integrate test and flight telemetry data into reliability predictions, flow down requirements, advise leadership on risk trade-offs, and mentor reliability engineers. Partner with design, systems, test, and manufacturing teams to improve robustness and support high-volume satellite production.

Leads spacecraft dynamics analysis and testing across transportation, launch, deployment, and on-orbit environments. Develops finite element, time- and frequency-domain models, simulation software, coupled loads analyses, vibroacoustic models, jitter and pointing analyses, and modal test methodologies. Owns qualification and acceptance testing, model correlation, loads and environment derivation, technical documentation, and shared analysis tooling. Provides technical direction, mentors engineers, and delivers data-driven guidance for reliable, mass-producible spacecraft.

Lead K2 Space’s California state and local government affairs strategy. Build relationships with legislators, regulators, agency officials, and Los Angeles-area stakeholders; brief policymakers and VIPs; monitor legislative and regulatory developments; coordinate official factory visits and relevant events; represent K2 in government engagements; and collaborate with communications and government affairs teams to advance company growth and navigate policy hurdles.

Own financial forecasting, reporting, cost and revenue tracking for customer programs. Translate engineering and production requirements into financial models, support monthly close and contract financial monitoring, analyze budget and schedule variances, contribute to proposal pricing, and provide decision support to program managers and executives across a complex aerospace manufacturing environment.

Develop and validate satellite dynamics models, simulation tools, and analysis workflows for transportation, launch, deployment, and on-orbit environments. Support dynamic, modal, vibration, shock, jitter, vibroacoustic, and coupled loads analyses; coordinate testing and model correlation; derive engineering requirements and design criteria; and provide data-driven guidance for reliable, mass-producible spacecraft.

Own spacecraft dynamics analyses and testing across transportation, launch, deployment, and on-orbit operations. Develop finite-element physics models, simulation tools, and time- and frequency-domain workflows; derive loads, vibration, shock, acoustic, jitter, and pointing environments. Lead coupled loads, modal, vibroacoustic, and dynamic testing, including model correlation and qualification testing. Provide engineering guidance, document analyses, review code, and collaborate with design teams and customers to deliver reliable, mass-producible satellite platforms.

Own the mechanical design and lifecycle development of spacecraft electric propulsion hardware, including propulsion modules, thruster components, propellant systems, avionics boxes, structures, and tanks. Create models, drawings, and interface documents; conduct analysis; develop and execute tests; iterate prototypes; qualify flight hardware; manage suppliers; and support production, integration, and in-space demonstrations.

Own the mechanical design and lifecycle development of high-power electric propulsion hardware for satellites. Responsibilities include requirements definition, concept development, CAD modeling, detailed analysis, testing, design iteration, vendor management, production support, and qualification of flight hardware. The engineer will design propulsion modules, thruster components, propellant systems, avionics boxes, secondary structures, and potentially tanks, ultimately supporting successful in-space demonstrations.

As a Payload Integration Engineer, you will manage payload integration for satellites, collaborate with customers, and ensure technical alignment across engineering teams throughout the satellite lifecycle.