About the role

Be one of the Bedo 100

Albedo is making Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) mainstream, building the infrastructure to usher every satellite mission set into this new orbital domain. We build buses, integrated satellites, and turnkey missions for customers to thrive in VLEO, between 250 km - 400 km, where proximity compounds performance and drag self-cleans debris. As part of the first 100 employees at Albedo, you will have a big impact on Albedo’s trajectory to proliferating VLEO — whether you’re advancing hardware to increase satellite longevity, scaling production for large constellations, building next-gen flight and ground software to push performance, or enabling missions that matter for national security and our day-to-day life here on earth.

How We Operate:

Albedo takes a first-principles approach — in space and in business. We move with speed, take calculated risks, and learn quickly. We use AI regularly to create leverage in every discipline across the company. We work in-person at our Broomfield CO HQ to maximize team and company productivity. We work hard and with urgency to compound our first-mover advantage.

Who We're Looking For:

Builders who want to own outcomes, not tasks. Systems thinkers who balance precision with iteration while thinking about the big picture. Individuals who are energized by creating a category rather than competing in an existing one. You’ll join a team that has already proven what others said wasn’t feasible and is now scaling and upgrading our VLEO buses & payloads to serve mission sets across sensing, communications, and responsive operations. If you can feel the excitement running through your veins, apply to be one of the Bedo 100.

What You’ll Do:

Lead the hardware engineering organization — opto-mechanical, structures, thermal, avionics — across approximately three to four teams of managers and ICs
Own design margin discipline against design standards across thermal, structural, radiation, electrical, mass, and optical budgets, and make those margins routine rather than heroic
Drive the AIT build flow from primary mirror unit fabrication through bus-to-payload integration through environmental test, eliminating the integration-stage discoveries that should have been caught analytically
Set and defend make-vs-buy strategy: vertical integration where the physics is the moat, aggressive outsourcing of commodity, decisions documented and revisited
Develop hardware engineering managers who can run their domains without requiring you in every technical decision
Partner with the Director of Software, Systems Engineering, and program management to close the analytical loop between hardware design, flight telemetry, and the next build

Requirements & Skills:

Hardware engineering leadership (opto-mechanical, structures, thermal, avionics)
Design margin discipline against design standards (thermal, structural, radiation, electrical, mass, optical budgets)
Analytical problem-solving to eliminate integration-stage issues
Make-vs-buy strategy development and defense
Hardware engineering management and team development
Cross-disciplinary system reasoning across optics, structures,

thermal, GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control), mass, and power budgets

Experience with environmental test campaigns and on-orbit anomaly resolution
Precision spaceflight hardware experience
Hands-on expertise in opto-mechanical engineering,

structural dynamics, or precision pointing systems

Ownership of precision payload or precision pointing chain end-to-end
Familiarity with NASA,

MIL, or equivalent standards for design margin calls

Collaboration with software,

systems engineering, and program management teams

Schedule management under pressure based on analytical data