Jobs at K2 Space

• Support highly reliable data solutions used across K2 Space — from factory floors to mission control.
• Maintain data design that improve how we design, build, and operate our spacecraft.

• Design, implement, and verify onboard estimation algorithms for orbit and attitude determination (EKF/MEKF/UKF, batch estimators, sensor fusion)
• Develop high-altitude GNSS navigation capability for MEO and GEO, including sidelobe and weak-signal tracking, receiver selection, and onboard orbit filtering

• Collaborate with other engineers to develop a novel high level vehicle mission plan
• Develop novel algorithms for precise OD and station-keeping of very large structures in earth orbit and beyond

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, Redpoin...

• Design and implement software that facilitates the build, test, and operations of K2's vehicles and our customers' payloads
• Collaborate with Mission Operators and Engineers across the company to identify and scope software solutions to complex technical and business problems

• Design and implement software that facilitates the build, test, and operations of K2's vehicles and our customers' payloads
• Collaborate with Mission Operators and Engineers across the company to identify and scope software solutions to complex technical and business problems

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, Redpoin...

• Build, scale, and lead the Solar Engineering organization across design, manufacturing, process, and automation disciplines
• Own the solar hardware technical baseline end-to-end: from array and module design through process qualification, tooling and automation infrastructure, and flight-ready production delivery

• Develop mission-level modeling and simulation of national security space missions, capturing operational objectives, environments, and constraints.
• Model and analyze constellation-level capability and performance against mission requirements, including network coverage, beam planning, and resilience in contested environments.

• Design, build, and own automated wafer-, die-, and module-level PIC test stations, including optical and RF probing, fiber-array alignment, and swept-laser measurements.
• Develop modular, reusable test automation software and instrument drivers in Python, with version control, CI, and AI-assisted tooling, and a shared data pipeline used by design, packaging, and reliability engineers.

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture of Type-1 cryptographic integrations across the spacecraft, payload, and ground segment
• Lead crypto designs from concept and trade studies through implementation, integration, and test

• Own day-to-day detection and response across the corporate environment, from alert triage and investigation through containment and remediation
• Administer and mature the SIEM, including log source onboarding, parsing and normalization, telemetry enrichment, rule tuning, and platform health, retention, and cost

• Define and execute the long-term vision for K2 Space’s end to end ground systems integration, focusing on network protocols and connections
• Drive integration implementation between in-house ground systems and external vendor systems while supporting the business development team

• Build and maintain golden-path deployment patterns for Amazon EKS, with built-in guardrails that get applications to production faster.
• Help drive secure, consistent AI adoption across software development, including guardrails, governance, observability, and operational support for AI-assisted workflows.

• Submit and maintain Facility Clearance (FCL) sponsorship packages; ensure ongoing FOCI compliance
• Keep business lines informed of upcoming security requirements; update SF312s and work with Legal to keep DCSA organizational records current

• Responsible for turbomachinery mechanisms in the spacecraft active thermal control system, including:
• Architectural down-selection, design, and tolerancing

• Own end-to-end manufacturing strategy for subsystems from concept through production ramp
• Lead DFM efforts with design engineering, influencing architecture decisions to optimize for cost, quality, scalability and integration risk

• Collaborate with design engineers to ensure design for manufacturability for initial design, flight hardware, and tooling
• Develop innovative manufacturing systems for large spacecraft assemblies, including electromechanical sub-assemblies, harnessing, welded/bolted structures, and mechanisms

• Own end-to-end manufacturing strategy for subsystems from concept through production ramp
• Lead DFM efforts with design engineering, influencing architecture decisions to optimize for cost, quality, scalability and integration risk

• Own kickoff, design, fabrication, build, activation, data collection, and conclusion/results for both development tests and production testing at rate
• Design test hardware, fixturing, and tooling using CAD, schematic tools, electrical analysis, and hand calculations