Albedo

Engineer

• Collaborate closely with opto-mechanical, thermal, structural, production, optical and systems engineers to a producible design that meets performance requirements
• Work collaboratively with Albedo’s optical and mechanical hardware teams to develop, modify and refine optical system models
• Oversee optical modeling and analysis results and adapt as required to production and build techniques
• Support alignment sensitivity studies
• Perform optical modeling to quickly determine solutions to issues that arise during build and test
• Support design for producibility and development of optical infrastructure for low-rate production
• Support detailed engineering design unit (EDU) preparation and build: optical test design, alignment pass/fail metrics, EDU and test equipment material BOMs, hardware builds, test to validate alignment tolerances, sensitivities, and overall reduce risk for our first article build
• Create PL work instructions to guide the team on the first and subsequent builds
• Hands on optical alignment and validation
• Use advanced optical alignment and performance measurement equipment and software tools
• Iteration of alignment results and design as needed with analysis models
• Hire, train and manage optical technicians

Senior Optical Engineer

Analyst

• Develop and modify structural dynamics models using NASTRAN and FEMAP to support the design and validation of high-performance optical payloads, satellite structures including space qualification testing
• Conduct finite element analyses, including static, modal, vibration, and dynamics evaluations, to ensure structural integrity and mission readiness.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with GNC, mechanical, and thermal engineers to validate models and align analysis with hardware design timelines.
• Contribute to detailed design efforts and prepare structural models for major reviews such as Preliminary Design Review (PDR).
• Be prepared to learn on the job and work hand in hand with an experienced dynamics engineer.
• Using AI, generate analysis tools such as APIs for FEMAP to optimize workflow

Senior Structural Analyst

• Responsible for interpretation and analysis of STOP results to and sensitivity analysis to determine next steps in design iteration
• Work with team to understand details of design causing results and iterate to optimize the design
• Obscuration analysis for Verity opto-mechanical design
• Line of Sight analysis for Verity opto-mechanical design
• Field Angle Map analysis for Verity opto-mechanical design
• Emissivity analysis of payload for LWIR imaging
• Converting all low-level WFE contributions of opto-mechanical design into simplified WFE budget, mapping non-perfect aspects of designs into rms WFE space including thermal-structural dynamics and identifying unquantified terms and impact/path forward
• Develop and perform Monte Carlo WFE prediction from current RSS WFE prediction
• Manage WFE budget as design progresses to re-allocate terms which can and cannot meet original allocation
• Allocate WFE margin as design matures
• Create merit function for existing system design
• WFE accounting for the 1g mission and associated uncertainty, each of the different major alignment step missions, and the post-environmental test mission, in addition to the normal 0g mission
• Produce overall predicted system WFE maps, including step-by-step expectations per alignment plan – Including 1g to 0g analytical prediction
• Analyze AIT environmental impacts to alignment measurement error

Lead Optical Analysis Engineer

Full-stack Engineer

• Work directly with avionics hardware to develop highly performant software in embedded Linux
• Benchmark solutions to ensure tight timing constraints are met
• Design software that communicates between real-time operating systems and embedded Linux
• Verify software end-to-end, from ground communication to spacecraft commanding
• Participate in integration and test campaigns to ensure software robustness
• Assist in maintaining automated systems for CI/CD for both software-only and hardware solutions
• Contribute to scaling production of the Precision bus and supporting the Clarity constellation

Senior Optical Engineer

Senior Structural Analyst

Lead Optical Analysis Engineer

Flight Software Engineer