High-power satellite manufacturer scaling toward high-rate production
K2 Space builds high-power satellite platforms out of Los Angeles, and its hiring is overwhelmingly senior and principal-level engineering, the profile of a hardware team still maturing its core designs. A stack spanning Altium, Cadence, Keysight ADS, VHDL and Rust alongside AWS EKS and Terraform, plus adoption of MES and HMI tooling, points to a shift from prototyping toward factory-scale satellite production.
Notable leadership hires: Lead Engineer
K2 Space Corporation is a privately held space manufacturer founded in 2022 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company designs and builds high-power satellites, covering the satellite bus, mechanical structures, propulsion, RF hardware and optical avionics. It employs 51–200 people and hires exclusively in the United States. Work spans flight hardware qualification, payload integration and preparation for its Trinity mission launch and on-orbit operations.
K2 Space uses hardware design tools like Altium Designer, Cadence, Keysight ADS and LTspice, FPGA work in VHDL and SystemVerilog, and software in Rust, C++, Python, Go and TypeScript on AWS, EKS and Kubernetes.
K2 Space is working on mega class satellite integration, flight hardware qualification, payload integration onto its satellite bus, propulsion hardware design, and launch and on-orbit operations for its Trinity mission.
Yes. Engineering dominates K2 Space's hiring, weighted toward senior and principal roles, with additional openings in manufacturing, operations and security, all based in the United States.
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