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Overview

K2 is a Series C space startup focused on building the largest and highest-power satellites for various missions. The company is backed by significant investments and aims to revolutionize spacecraft design for a new era of mass abundance in space exploration.

Responsibilities

  • Perform hands-on assembly of the primary and secondary structure, including sheet metal panels, machined parts, and mechanisms.
  • Route, install, secure, and inspect avionics and power harnesses on integrated vehicles.
  • Install electro-mechanical components including mechanisms, avionics, power, and propulsion hardware.
  • Support propulsion system integration and high-pressure operations following released procedures and safety protocols.
  • Collaborate closely with manufacturing, test, quality, and design engineering to resolve hardware issues in real time.
  • Follow detailed work instructions and manufacturing procedures, performing all work in the MES system.
  • Support cleanroom final integration activities including payload integration, functional testing, troubleshooting, vehicle handling, and shipping preparations.
  • Practice 5S principles of organizing and sustaining an efficient and presentable workspace.
  • Provide consistent process improvement feedback to engineering and production leadership.
  • Occasionally support component assembly in sub-assembly stations.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience assembling, integrating, and testing flight hardware in the aerospace industry.
  • Proficiency with computers and ability to use MS Office and shop floor management software.
  • Familiar with calibrated tools including multi-meters, calipers, torque wrenches, load cells, safety cable guns, and crimpers.
  • Demonstrated high level of ownership and problem-solving abilities.
  • Experience working with FOD, ESD sensitive hardware and clean room requirements.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Must be able to perform repetitive tasks such as bending or twisting, grasping, standing, lifting, pulling, pushing, stooping, stretching, carrying, and use hands to operate tools or machine controls.
  • Must be able to lift and carry parts or equipment up to 50 lbs. unassisted.
  • Must be able to stand for extended periods of time.
  • Must be able to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Los Angeles, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $40/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $40/hr median for welding jobs in Los Angeles, CA, whose middle half runs $30–$57/hr across 73 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 48% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Los Angeles, CA

We're tracking 101 other active welding openings in Los Angeles, CA right now, from 61 different employers. 51 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 627 other active welding openings from 306 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Los Angeles, or widen the search to California.

K2 Space Corporation currently has 5 other openings live in California, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (31), Aerotek (16), and Volt (16). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Redondo Beach at $51/hr, Santa Ana at $48/hr, and Long Beach at $40/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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