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About the Role
Own the productization of compact pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) optomechanical subsystems for Azora's modular optical ground stations and space terminals. Guide the process of fine-steering and coarse-pointing systems from commercial prototype through field qualification, ensuring microradian-class stability regardless of environmental conditions.
Responsibilities
- Design optomechanical assemblies for beam steering, including gimbals, fast-steering mirrors (FSMs), telescope mounts, relay optics, and fiber-coupling stages.
- Perform structural, thermal, and STOP analysis to verify line-of-sight stability and wavefront error budgets.
- Develop pointing error budgets covering base motion, jitter, thermal drift, and control-loop residuals, and flow them down to component requirements.
- Design, select, and qualify actuators, encoders, bearings, and flexures for ground and space environments.
- Lead alignment, integration, and test of optical assemblies in the field.
- Support acquisition and tracking field campaigns, including troubleshooting under real atmospheric conditions.
- Collaborate with software, electrical, and network engineers to integrate mechanical design with autonomous optical communications.
Requirements
- BSc or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field.
- 3+ years of optomechanical design experience for precision optical systems (laser communications, telescopes, directed energy, or similar).
- Proficiency with CAD (SolidWorks, NX, Creo, or similar) and FEA tools (ANSYS, Nastran, or similar).
- Hands-on experience aligning and testing optical assemblies in a lab environment.
- Working knowledge of GD&T, tolerance analysis, and precision machining practices.
Skills
- Optomechanical design
- Beam steering
- Gimbals
- Fast-steering mirrors (FSMs)
- Telescope mounts
- Relay optics
- Fiber-coupling stages
- Structural analysis
- Thermal analysis
- STOP analysis
- Pointing error budgets
- Actuator selection
- Encoder selection
- Bearing selection
- Flexure design
- Alignment
- Integration
- Testing
- Troubleshooting
- CAD
- FEA
- GD&T
- Tolerance analysis
- Precision machining
- Fast-steering mirrors
- Gimbal design
- Telescope pointing systems
- Zemax/OpticStudio
- CODE V
- Hardware qualification
- Vibration testing
- Shock testing
- Thermal vacuum testing
- Optical ground stations
- Astronomical instrumentation
Location
- Tempe, AZ
- Bay Area, CA
Work Type
- Onsite
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3+ years of optomechanical design experience
Education Level
- BSc or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field
Salary/Compensations
- Final salary is based on geographic location, experience, skills, and qualifications.
Benefits
- Generous equity
- Competitive healthcare (including options for vision and dental)
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
About the Company
- Azora is building high-bandwidth communications infrastructure for environments where fiber can’t reach.
- This work spans LEO spacecraft constellations, lunar exploration missions, GEO satcom, deployable optical ground for defense, and data centers both on- and off-world.
- To enable rapid global proliferation Azora is developing compact and modular optical terminals small enough to deploy from a backpack, and space terminals that support high speed optical links from LEO out to the Moon.
Equal Opportunity
- Azora is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know by contacting info@azora.space
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicants must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (iii) protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or (iv) be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.