Salary is $50000 to $75000 per year depending on qualifications.

Opterus is working on the most exciting and amazing space deployable structures and mechanisms technologies ever conceived. If you share an interest in structures, mechanisms, composites, space, and building cool things that will change the world, we invite you to join our team.

Opterus exists for three reasons – first, to fulfill a passion for cutting-edge structures and mechanisms. We love inventing, building, and bringing to market crazy advanced folding, deforming, and shape changing structures. We're working on huge space-based solar power platforms, 10,000 square meter solar sails, cislunar radar systems, origami deployable reflectors, and more. Our second purpose is to provide a rewarding place to work by calming the chaos that plagues many startups in the new space industry. We are NOT VC funded, publicly traded, or otherwise driven to maximize financial output at your expense. Our purpose is to create an enabling, intellectually rewarding, healthy, and stable work environment where we can exercise our passion for structures and business. And third, yes, we're here to make money. Unlike most startups that promise a payout far in the future if and when the company sells and all others have been paid, Opterus has a generous yearly profit-sharing bonus plan that ensures you directly financially benefit from your hard work.

Opterus is looking for an experienced ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN with MECHANICAL DESIGNER AND DRAFTING skills to work with engineering and manufacturing teams on spacecraft mechanical and structural systems. Opterus is a small business and responsibilities will span several technical areas including, technical drawing, GD&T, process documentation, design, inspection, metrology systems, mechanical assembly, high performance carbon fiber composites processes, and structural testing. Applicants should have experience working in the satellite industry with AS9100 quality management systems and must have 3 years SolidWorks CAD and PDM experience. Work is expected to be split between desk (design and drafting) and hands-on lab technician work with a higher emphasis on design and PDM.

Opterus offers a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off, allowing flexibility for extended weekends and a great work-life balance. Opterus also offers a generous benefits package that includes paid holidays and time off; a profit-sharing bonus plan; a 401(k) with matching funds; and life, AD&D, medical, and dental & vision insurances. Opterus pays 100% of employee and 70% of dependent health insurance premiums. Other perks: two kegs, shuffleboard, and pets are welcome. Did we mention that the Fort Collins/Loveland area has a 40% lower cost of living than Boulder and is 10% lower cost than Denver?

Candidates should have a vocational degree, associate degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of two years of experience working in an AS9100 environment with both R&D and space flight programs. This is a technician position, not an engineering position. Candidates are required to be US citizens and to be able to obtain a US Department of Defense security clearance if needed.