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Opto-Mechanical Manufacturing Engineer

Impulse· Manufacturing
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Redondo Beach$100k - $200kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Opto-Mechanical Manufacturing Engineer responsible for building opto-mechanical assemblies, owning production build and testing, and ensuring manufacturability and reliability for space-grade optical systems.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, document, and optimize manufacturing processes for opto-mechanical assemblies, such as star trackers, cameras and sun sensors
  • Develop and optimize metrology processes for opto-mechanical assemblies in production
  • Design tooling for complex alignment of lens assemblies and drive assembly, integration and test of camera sub-assemblies
  • Collaborate with optical design engineers to ensure manufacturability, DFM/DFA of optical assemblies, including custom spherical and aspherical lenses/mirrors
  • Collaborate with cross functional teams on quality and long-term reliability
  • Provide day-to-day support for the production floor, resolving build issues, updating work instructions, and improving yields
  • Provide guidance to opto-mechanical technicians
  • Own environmental and functional testing (optical, vibe, thermal, etc.) in production

Qualifications

  • Bachelors' degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or related field
  • 6+ years of demonstrated manufacturing experience in high-precision opto-mechanical manufacturing
  • 6+ years of optical metrology equipment experience, such as centration measurements, interferometry and wavefront sensors
  • Knowledge of optical alignment using a laser or collimated light source
  • Experience with designing tooling for optical assembly
  • Skilled at mechanical design and GD&T using NX and Teamcenter
  • Knowledge of CNC Machining

Skills

Required:Manufacturing process optimizationMetrology for opto-mechanical assembliesOptical alignmentTooling design for optical assemblyMechanical design and GD&T

Benefits

  • long-term incentives, in the form of stock options
  • medical, vision & dental coverage
  • access to a 401(k) retirement plan
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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