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Salary: USD 169,436 - 192,675 / annual
Albedo is building infrastructure to enable satellite missions in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), below 300 km. The company manufactures spacecraft buses, integrated satellites, and turnkey missions for customers. As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will serve as Albedo's technical authority for spacecraft manufacturing, establishing processes, standards, and best practices across spacecraft buses, payloads, and common hardware.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and executing manufacturing engineering strategies, including process development, tooling, work instructions, and production readiness
- Partnering with design engineering to influence hardware designs, improve manufacturability, and resolve technical challenges before production impact
- Leading new product introduction (NPI), transitioning hardware from engineering development into repeatable, scalable production
- Working directly with production technicians to troubleshoot complex build issues, resolve nonconformance, and drive corrective actions
- Establishing manufacturing systems and workflows, including mBOMs, work instructions, and digital traceability within MES systems
- Identifying and leading opportunities to improve manufacturing quality, efficiency, cost, and scalability
- Defining manufacturing capabilities, equipment, tooling, and infrastructure to support growing production demands
- Providing technical leadership and mentorship across engineering and production teams
Albedo operates with a first-principles approach, moving with speed and using AI to create leverage across disciplines. The company emphasizes in-person collaboration at the Broomfield, CO headquarters and values builders who own outcomes, think systemically, and are energized by creating new categories.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8–10+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, production engineering, or related roles supporting complex hardware, preferably in aerospace or other high-reliability industries
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Aerospace Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated experience leading manufacturing engineering initiatives and establishing processes that improve production quality, efficiency, and scalability
- Strong hands-on experience with precision mechanical assembly, electromechanical integration, and manufacturing techniques (fastening, bonding, harnessing)
- Experience transitioning complex hardware from prototype/development builds into repeatable production
- Strong understanding of DFM/DFA, tooling development, manufacturing process controls, and continuous improvement
- Familiarity with CAD, PLM, MES, and configuration management systems
- Proven ability to independently define technical direction, anticipate manufacturing challenges, and drive complex cross-functional projects
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions, mentor engineers and technicians, and build consensus across teams
- Comfortable working hands-on in fast-paced environment while balancing near-term execution with long-term manufacturing strategy
- Must be a U.S. Person as defined under 22 CFR 120.62
