Reflect Orbital
Composites Engineer
Hawthorne, CA
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About the role
- Your work directly determines the performance of the composite structures we're flying to space in 2025.
Responsibilities
- Own the engineering and process development for all in-house composite structures
- Develop, validate, and optimize laminate schedules, cure cycles, and layup techniques
- Design tooling, molds, fixtures, and inspection methods for thin high-precision composite parts
- Implement manufacturing controls: travelers, process specs, inspection criteria, and QA workflows
- Collaborate with technicians to ensure manufacturability and performance alignment
- Support fabrication on the floor-hands-on when needed-to bridge engineering and manufacturing
- Drive continual improvement in surface quality, dimensional tolerance, repeatability, and yield
- Support development and maintenance of capital equipment (ovens, autoclave alternatives, CNC routing for molds, etc.)
- Experience developing tooling, mold design, or fixture design for composite components
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with composite processing: layup, cure, debulk, trimming, bonding, inspection
- 4-6 years of composites engineering experience spanning design, processing, and manufacturing.
- Strong background in composite materials engineering, aerospace structures, or manufacturing engineering
Nice to have
- Experience designing and producing thin high-precision composite laminates (prepreg preferred)
Compensation
- Reflect Orbital's success will hinge on our team, which is why our compensation and benefits plan is designed to reward our employees and support their families as generously as we're able.
Benefits
- Reflect Orbital's success will hinge on our team, which is why our compensation and benefits plan is designed to reward our employees and support their families as generously as we're able.
- Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, Reflect covers 100% of each base-policy
- Access to HSA, FSA, and 401K
- Unlimited paid time off, two-weeks per year encouraged
- Experience with spacecraft, high-performance deployable structures, or other extreme-environment hardware is a bonus
Company info
- At Reflect, you will be expected to move fast, have a lot of ownership and, most importantly, be able to effect change.
- If this excites you, we are interested in hearing about your best work and accomplishments across any domain and from any points in your life.
Equal opportunity
- Reflect Orbital is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Reflect Orbital is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
- More about Reflect Orbital:
- Learn more about our team here. https://www.reflectorbital.com/team
- Equal Opportunity Employer
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