Observable Space

Mechanical Engineer

• Design and optimize mechanical and optomechanical components, including telescope tubes, mounts, enclosures, and optical supports
• Create detailed 3D CAD models, engineering drawings, and bills of materials
• Conduct FEA simulations for stress, thermal, and vibrational environments
• Collaborate with optical, electrical, and software engineers to ensure mechanical compatibility with imaging, tracking, and sensing subsystems
• Support the full product lifecycle from concept design and prototyping through testing and production
• Participate in and contribute to design reviews such as PDR and CDR
• Maintain internal documentation
• Provide engineering support during fabrication, quality control, assembly, and system validation

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Senior Mechanical Engineer

Electrical Engineer

• Lead the design and development of electrical systems powering next-generation laser communications technology
• Design electronics interfacing with lasers, photonic integrated circuits, optical amplifiers, modulators, detectors, and fiber optic subsystems
• Design high-speed analog and mixed-signal circuitry for coherent and free-space optical communications
• Develop signal conditioning, amplification, timing, clocking, and data conversion circuitry for ultra-high-bandwidth optical links
• Design, analyze, and validate high-speed signal paths for signal integrity, noise performance, jitter, and bandwidth
• Model, simulate, prototype, and characterize optical communication hardware
• Support DSP pipelines for modulation, demodulation, synchronization, equalization, and optical signal recovery
• Collaborate with optical engineers on laser performance, optical alignment, receiver sensitivity, and system link budgets
• Perform electrical characterization and debugging using oscilloscopes, vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, BERTs, optical spectrum analyzers, and related laboratory equipment
• Participate in architecture trade studies, component selection, and system performance optimization
• Support transition from prototype to flight-qualified hardware while balancing performance, manufacturability, and reliability
• Report to the Director of Electrical Engineering

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