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Overview

K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown, backed by significant funding and contracts. The Spacecraft Fluids & Pumps Engineering Technician will be responsible for building and testing turbopumps and fluid loop hardware for high-power satellites in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Assemble precision turbopumps and fluid loop mechanisms to engineering drawings and work instructions.
  • Build, operate, and maintain development flow loops and test stands.
  • Install and check out pressure transducers, temperature sensors, and flow meters.
  • Fabricate, bend, fit, and install precision tubing and fluid lines.
  • Execute hydraulic performance, leak, flow, and proof pressure tests.
  • Perform fluid loop cleaning, flushing, vacuum evacuation, and working fluid fill/charge.
  • Install pump motors, motorized/solenoid valves, and sensors.
  • Collaborate closely with manufacturing, test, quality, and design engineering.
  • Follow detailed work instructions and manufacturing procedures.
  • Practice 5S principles of organizing and sustaining an efficient workspace.
  • Provide consistent process improvement feedback to engineering and production leadership.
  • Support vehicle integration operations and other related departments as needed.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of hands-on aerospace or high-reliability assembly and test experience with fluid or rotating hardware.
  • Experience with proof pressure, leak and flow testing.
  • Hands-on experience with tube fabrication, bending, and fittings.
  • Familiarity with MES/MRP software.
  • Familiar with calibrated tools including multimeters and torque wrenches.
  • 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 and lift and carry parts or equipment up to 50 lbs.
  • 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 $43/hr median for welding jobs in Los Angeles, CA, whose middle half runs $35–$58/hr across 55 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% 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 84 other active welding openings in Los Angeles, CA right now, from 57 different employers. 34 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 586 other active welding openings from 267 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 2 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 (37), Relativity Space (22), and Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (18). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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