Senior Mechanical Engineer; Assembly, Integration, and Test

Karman

We are inventors, designers, engineers, scientists, tinkerers, entrepreneurs, adventurers, artists, activists, global citizens, architects, musicians, builders, writers, athletes and space nerds. We partner with the best minds and most experienced teams across industry and academia, bringing together the knowledge, experience, and skills required to navigate our critical path.

Asteroid mining has lived at the intersection of scientific research and popular culture for decades, with as many academic papers published as there are books, TV shows and movies about it.

Access to resources, with its finite nature and disparate distribution, plays an essential part in the geopolitical web of power and wealth. It has defined economic growth to such an extent that we have been using them as primary demarcation lines and identifiers in our history, from the stone to bronze and iron age to our current silicon age.

But our resources-driven growth faces a massive existential challenge, with climate change, ecosystem degradation and resource depletion demanding a complete reset. Humanity needs to shift global transportation, manufacturing, construction and energy onto a sustainable path.

Expanding beyond the Kármán line is where we believe transformative future growth and innovation will be found. Recent missions by NASA (OSIRIS-REx & DART) and JAXA (Hayabusa2) have firmly pushed the idea of using space resources from academic research into commercial opportunity.

We believe the Regolith Age
, powered by abundant space resources, is an inevitability that we can accelerate.

• Diversity of thought
  . We believe that different perspectives drive better results. We aim to build diverse teams and a diverse company.
• Ownership, feedback and accountability. Ideas improve through collaboration, discussion and iteration. Decisions don’t follow the same pattern and revert to the mean when made in a group. We aim to have clear ownership, accountability for results and autonomy to deliver.
• No silos.We build cross-functional teams to be able to deliver on our goals. There are no predefined lanes for people to operate in, information is pushed out across all teams to make sure we benefit from cross-pollination.
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  ** holes. We optimize for potential and a growth mindset. We value experience, but only when balanced with self-awareness and first principles thinking.
• Small is beautiful. The best results as well as the best work experience come from a small team of talented people working towards a common goal.

Position Title: Senior Mechanical Engineer (Assembly, Integration, and Test)

Location: Broomfield, CO

Position Type: Full-time

At Karman , we’re building spacecraft systems that will take us beyond Earth orbit, enabling the “Regolith Age” of asteroid mining. For the High Frontier mission, we need a seasoned and hands-on mechanical engineer to plan, lead, and execute the build of our autonomous asteroid‑mining spacecraft. This is a critical role for an engineer who thrives in dynamic environments, meticulously defines lean processes, and enjoys leading complex integration

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer on the Assembly, Integration, and Test (AI&T) team, you will own the end‑to‑end planning and execution of flight vehicle mechanical builds, leading technicians, and defining the standards that ensure mission success. This position is highly collaborative —you will work with every subsystem team (Avionics, Thermal, Propulsion, Software) and serve as a central figure coordinating the flow from component readiness to launch vehicle integration.

• Take ownership of the planning and execution of subsystem builds
• Panel preparations with inserts, fastener lubrication and kitting, and surface treatments.
• Subsystems builds to individual panels (Ex, propulsion panel)
• Take ownership of the planning and execution of vehicle builds
• Define the build flow,…