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Opto-Mechanical Design Engineer

Altezzasys
Los Angeles, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/6/2025 CLOSED ON 12/19/2025

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Job Title: Opto-Mechanical Design Engineer

Location: LA, CA

Long Term Contract

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Conceptualize, design, develop, and improve free space optical LASER communication systems

Improve/Optimize opto-mechanical layouts

Design optical mounts

Prototype designs for lab testing

Create drawings for Flight

Serve as primary technical interface to development team, participating as the lead technical voice from the factory in

Design Reviews, key technical escalations, and new product development activities.

Support operations team directly by being a high solving power engineer, capable of bringing multiple diverging

technical perspectives together in high pressure escalation moments such as quality containments.- Own the capacity

increase roadmap for production including defining the relevant capital equipment required for rate increase and helping

to lead the design, procurement, install, and qualification of new rate enabling equipment.

EXPORT CONTROL REQUIREMENT:

(i.e., current ), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

5 years experience as a opto-mechanical design engineer

Degree in one of the following areas OR related field OR equivalent work experience:

Mechanical Engineering (Preferred)

Optical Engineering (or Physics equivalent)

Demonstrated experience in one of the following areas:

Space systems

Free space optical systems

Precision mechanisms

Demonstrated experience in all the following areas:

Electronics packaging

New product introduction

CAD ( 5 years)

NX / TeamCenter ( 1 year)

Drawing experience w/ GD&T

Design for manufacturability

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

10 years experience as an opto-mechanical design engineer

Experience designing:

LASER optical communication systems for space applications

Precision space mechanisms

Experience building optical systems in lab / 100k clean room environments

Experience with composites, designing for composite structures

Experience with designing for athermalization

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