Lead Mechanisms Engineer

Albedo

Denver, CO, United States

Posted on: 2025-11-14

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Albedo builds & operates VLEO satellites. Our first satellite Clarity-1 captures visible and thermal imagery at the highest resolution commercially available.

The world is rapidly changing and a new level of visibility and transparency is required to solve some of our largest problems. Albedo’s 10 cm visible and 2m thermal imagery will fuel insights for industries such as mapping, insurance, utilities, solar, agriculture, infrastructure sustainability, national security, and much more.

Be one of the Bedo 100

Albedo is making Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) mainstream, building the infrastructure to usher every satellite mission set into this new orbital domain. We build buses, integrated satellites, and turnkey missions for customers to thrive in VLEO, between 200 km - 400 km, where proximity compounds performance & drag self-cleans debris.

As part of the first 100 employees at Albedo, you will have a big impact on Albedo’s trajectory to proliferating VLEO — whether you’re advancing hardware to increase satellite longevity, scaling production for large constellations, building next-gen flight and ground software to push performance, or enabling missions that matter for national security and our day-to-day life here on earth.

How We Operate: Albedo takes a first-principles approach — in space and in business. We move with speed, take calculated risks, and learn quickly. We use AI regularly to create leverage in every discipline across the company. We work in-person at our Broomfield CO HQ to maximize team & company productivity. We work hard & with urgency to compound our first-mover advantage.

Who We're Looking For: Builders who want to own outcomes, not tasks. Systems thinkers who balance precision with iteration while thinking about the big picture. Individuals who are energized by creating a category rather than competing in an existing one. You’ll join a team that has already proven what others said wasn’t feasible and is now scaling & upgrading our VLEO buses & payloads to serve mission sets across sensing, communications, and responsive operations.

If you can feel the excitement running through your veins, apply to be one of the Bedo 100.

Albedo does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Albedo employees. Albedo is not responsible for any fees or overhead related to unsolicited resumes.

Additional Requirements: In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. All persons hired will be required to be a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled: Albedo is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Relocation: Relocation for this position is available

US CITIZENSHIP IS REQUIRED

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Compensation and Benefits:

Employee friendly equity compensation

4% direct matching 401k

Health Insurance: 100% employee coverage & 75% dependent coverage

Parental leave and childcare coverage

Flexible vacation and sick time from day one

12 company holidays

$100 monthly wellness benefit

Relocation package if not based in Denver

What You'll Do:

Own architecture, design, and development of reaction wheels and CMGs optimized for VLEO: extremely low jitter, high torque, and long life

Lead multi-disciplinary projects to deliver precision low-jitter mechanism that meet image motion, pointing, and agility performance requirements from a first principals approach

Translate or help derive jitter, agility, and bandwidth requirements into mechanism design constraints and testable specs

Own the schedule, budget, and performance parameters of all new mechanism development to deliver on project and program capabilities

Evaluate and implement design for manufacturing (DFM) strategies for high rate production with respect to mechanism balancing, characterization, and lifetime test strategies

Collaborate deeply with GNC and Structural Engineers to ensure closed-loop control performance and system model correlation is enabled, not limited, by the hardware

Lead qualification efforts for all mechanisms operating in VLEO, including test planning for atomic oxygen, high drag, and microvibration

Drive future development of:

Fast steering mirrors for agile optical pointing

Articulating assemblies for adaptive communications or SDA payloads

Focus and alignment mechanisms for optical payloads