<div class="content-intro"><p data-renderer-start-pos="41">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, Redpoint Ventures, and T. Rowe Price — and with over $1 billion in signed contracts across commercial and US government customers, we're mass-producing the highest-power satellite platforms ever built for missions from LEO to deep space.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="570">The rise of heavy-lift launch vehicles is shifting the industry from an era of mass constraint to one of mass abundance, and we believe this new era demands a fundamentally different class of spacecraft. Engineered to survive the harshest radiation environments and to fully capitalize on today's and tomorrow's massive rockets, K2 satellites deliver unmatched capability at constellation scale and across multiple orbits.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="994">With multiple launches in 2027 and plans to scale to 100 satellites a year, we're Building Bigger — helping develop the solar system and build toward a Kardashev Type II (K2) civilization. If you are a motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and you're excited about contributing to the success of a high-growth Series D-funded company, we'd love for you to apply.</p></div><p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">The Role</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Critical to achieving K2's vision is deploying our 20-kW high-power spacecraft platform at scale across MEO, GEO, cis-lunar, and deep space. Realizing that vision means actively controlling the heat generated by the high-power payloads our platform hosts. This requires active thermal control systems such as pumped fluid loops, built from fluid turbopumps, valves, accumulators, and pressure and temperature instrumentation. Scaling to constellations requires someone who can span the mechanical, fluid, electromechanical, and thermal-fluid domains and collaborate closely with the thermal, avionics, software, and production teams to deliver these systems at rate.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":240,"335559739":240,"335559740":276}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">As Senior Mechanisms Engineer, Turbomachinery, you will define how K2 designs, analyzes, manufactures, tests, integrates, and deploys precision turbomachinery for integration into active thermal control systems. You will own these unique pieces of turbomachinery from concept through integration and rate production. You will be responsible for mission-critical hardware which goes to space. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Responsibilities</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="●" data-font="Arial" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"●","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Responsible for </span><span data-contrast="auto">turbopumps/turbomachinery mechanisms in the spacecraft active thermal control system, including:</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":240}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="○" data-font="Arial" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1440,"335559991":360,"469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"○","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Architectural down-selection, design, and tolerancing</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":240}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="○" data-font="Arial" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1440,"335559991":360,"469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"○","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Pump- and mechanism-specific analyses (rotor dynamics, bearings and seals, hydraulic performance, structural, thermal-fluid)</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":240}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="○" data-font="Arial" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1440,"335559991":360,"469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"○","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Environmental test and qualification plans</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":240}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="○" data-font="Arial" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1440,"335559991":360,"469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"○","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Ground- and in-flight performance validation plans</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":240}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="○" data-font="Arial" dat