Technician (Opto-mechanical)

Role

Be the hands of the integration team: assemble, align, and test precision optomechanical hardware for Azora's space terminals and ground stations. You will build engineering and flight units, run alignment procedures, and support environmental test campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Assemble precision optomechanical hardware: optical benches, telescope assemblies, fiber routing, FSM and gimbal subassemblies, and structural elements.

• Perform optical alignment using autocollimators, interferometers, alignment lasers, and CMM/metrology equipment, following documented procedures.

• Execute bonding, staking, torquing, and fastener installation to aerospace workmanship standards, with full traceability documentation.

• Handle, clean, and inspect optical components (mirrors, lenses, fibers, windows) per cleanliness and contamination control protocols.

• Support environmental testing: vibration, shock, thermal vacuum, and thermal cycling - including fixture setup, instrumentation, and test execution.

• Maintain cleanroom standards, tool calibration records, and electrostatic discharge (ESD) and foreign object debris (FOD) controls.

• Red-line and improve assembly procedures; provide manufacturability feedback to design engineers.

• Support ground station site builds and installations, including occasional travel to remote sites.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years as a mechanical, optical, or aerospace assembly technician, including experience on space flight or other high-reliability hardware.

• Demonstrated precision assembly skills: small fasteners, torque control, adhesive bonding, and delicate component handling.

• Experience working in cleanroom environments with contamination control, ESD, and FOD discipline.

• Ability to read and work from engineering drawings, GD&T callouts, and written procedures.

• Strong documentation habits (travelers, as-built records, non-conformance reporting).

Preferred

• Optical alignment experience (telescopes, laser systems, imaging payloads) and familiarity with optical metrology tools.

• Experience supporting TVAC, vibration, or shock test campaigns.

• IPC/NASA workmanship certifications (e.g., NASA-STD-8739.x series) or J-STD soldering certification.

• Fiber optic termination, polishing, or splicing experience.

Location

This is an onsite/hybrid role based in Tempe, AZ - hardware work that’s hard to do remotely. Some travel expected for field deployment and vendor/manufacturing visits.

Benefits:

• Generous equity

• Competitive healthcare (including options for vision and dental)

• 401(k)

• Unlimited PTO

EEO & Reasonable Accommodations

• Azora is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

• If you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know by contacting [email protected]

Export Control

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicants must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (iii) protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or (iv) be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Salary ranges are based on the following criteria:

• Final salary is based on geographic location, experience, skills, and qualifications.

About this Company

Azora is building high-bandwidth communications infrastructure for environments where fiber can’t reach. This work spans LEO spacecraft constellations, lunar exploration missions, GEO satcom, deployable optical ground for defense, and data centers both on- and off-world. To enable rapid global proliferation Azora is developing compact and modular optical terminals small enough to deploy from a backpack, and space terminals that support high speed optical links from LEO out to the Moon.