Andreessen Horowitz has recently invested in a stealth startup building a space-based data transport network that moves enterprise data between two points on Earth using free-space laser links in MEO. The company is focused on providing multi-Tbps capacity network infrastructure, relying on optics and unique constellation orbit design to deliver reliable bandwidth to enterprises and sovereigns. If you are interested in learning more, please apply or contact the a16z team to connect with the founders.
You keep the optics stable. A Tbps-class link holds sub-micron alignment across the whole optical path, and that alignment drifts with temperature. Between high-power EDFAs, modem electronics, and precision optics sharing one assembly, thermal control is what keeps the beam path true — not just what keeps hardware alive. Thermal stability is a first-light problem here, not only a field one.
You own thermal for the terminal and bench now, and extend it to the flight payload as the space segment comes online — across real deployment sites, not a controlled lab. You partner with Optomechanical on structural-thermal-optical behavior and with the amplifier and electronics seats on heat loads.
Thermal design and analysis for the optical terminal, bench, and — as it comes online — the flight payload.
Thermal stability tight enough to hold sub-micron alignment (STOP, with Optomechanical and Optical Design).
Heat management for high-power amplifiers, drivers, and modem electronics next to precision optics.
The thermal environment across real deployment sites.
Thermal interfaces and budgets for the payload, with the Satellite Systems Engineer.
The roadmap from demonstrator thermal control to a field- and orbit-survivable terminal.
Thermal design and analysis depth; fluent in thermal tools (Thermal Desktop, ANSYS, COMSOL, or similar).
Structural-thermal-optical (STOP) reasoning, or a strong feel for how heat moves precision hardware.
Electronics and high-power-component cooling.
Hands-on thermal test and model correlation.
A degree in mechanical, aerospace, or physics, plus modeling skills (Python, MATLAB, or similar).
Spacecraft or payload thermal (vacuum, radiative, thermal-vacuum test).
Optical-system or precision-instrument thermal control.
High-power laser or fiber-amplifier cooling.
Deployed or field-hardware thermal experience.
If this list doesn't perfectly match your background but you've done serious precision-thermal or payload-thermal work, reach out anyway — we are always looking for exceptional people.
We are a lean company by design. There is no program office, no requirements team handing you specs, and no army of analysts. You will build the models, make the calls on incomplete data, and be forced to defend and revise them. You will spend meaningful hands-on time in the lab, not just in reviews. You will own your piece of the system and live with the consequences of your own trades. If you do your best work inside a large, well-resourced program, this seat will frustrate you. If you have been waiting for that kind of ownership from the start, this is the job for you.
We offer competitive, best-in-class compensation including salary, meaningful equity, and full benefits. Health, dental, vision, generous paid time off (PTO), relocation support, and a real equipment and lab budget.
Culver City (onsite).
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT THE COMPANY\n\nAndreessen Horowitz has recently invested in a stealth startup building a space-based data transport network that moves enterprise data between two points on Earth using free-space laser links in MEO. The company is focused on providing multi-Tbps capacity network infrastructure, relying on optics and unique constellation orbit design to deliver reliable bandwidth to enterprises and sovereigns. If you are interested in learning more, please apply or contact the a16z team to connect with the founders.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nYou keep the optics stable. A Tbps-class link holds sub-micron alignment across the whole optical path, and that alignment drifts with temperature. Between high-power EDFAs, modem electronics, and precision optics sharing one assembly, thermal control is what keeps the beam path true — not just what keeps hardware alive. Thermal stability is a first-light problem here, not only a field one.\n\nYou own thermal for the terminal and bench now, and extend it to the flight payload as the space segment comes online — across real deployment sites, not a controlled lab. You partner with Optomechanical on structural-thermal-optical behavior and with the amplifier and electronics seats on heat loads.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL OWN\n\n - Thermal design and analysis for the optical terminal, bench, and — as it comes online — the flight payload.\n\n - Thermal stability tight enough to hold sub-micron alignment (STOP, with Optomechanical and Optical Design).\n\n - Heat management for high-power amplifiers, drivers, and modem electronics next to precision optics.\n\n - The thermal environment across real deployment sites.\n\n - Thermal interfaces and budgets for the payload, with the Satellite Systems Engineer.\n\n - The roadmap from demonstrator thermal control to a field- and orbit-survivable terminal.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE\n\n - Thermal design and analysis depth; fluent in thermal tools (Thermal Desktop, ANSYS, COMSOL, or similar).\n\n - Structural-thermal-optical (STOP) reasoning, or a strong feel for how heat moves precision hardware.\n\n - Electronics and high-power-component cooling.\n\n - Hands-on thermal test and model correlation.\n\n - A degree in mechanical, aerospace, or physics, plus modeling skills (Python, MATLAB, or similar).\n\n\n\n\nBONUS\n\n - Spacecraft or payload thermal (vacuum, radiative, thermal-vacuum test).\n\n - Optical-system or precision-instrument thermal control.\n\n - High-power laser or fiber-amplifier cooling.\n\n - Deployed or field-hardware thermal experience.\n\nIf this list doesn't perfectly match your background but you've done serious precision-thermal or payload-thermal work, reach out anyway — we are always looking for exceptional people.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT THIS JOB IS REALLY LIKE\n\nWe are a lean company by design. There is no program office, no requirements team handing you specs, and no army of analysts. You will build the models, make the calls on incomplete data, and be forced to defend and revise them. You will spend meaningful hands-on time in the lab, not just in reviews. You will own your piece of the system and live with the consequences of your own trades. If you do your best work inside a large, well-resourced program, this seat will frustrate you. If you have been waiting for that kind of ownership from the start, this is the job for you.\n\n\n\n\nCOMPENSATION + BENEFITS\n\nWe offer competitive, best-in-class compensation including salary, meaningful equity, and full benefits. Health, dental, vision, generous paid time off (PTO), relocation support, and a real equipment and lab budget.\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\n\nCulver City (onsite)."},{"id":"cd487a71-34ef-4794-8b8f-13187a10e539","title":"Electrical Engineer - All Levels","department":"Lasercom","team":"Core Optical Team (Batch 1)","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Culver City, CA","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-04T03:03:51.962+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Los Angeles"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EON/cd487a71-34ef-4794-8b8f-13187a10e539","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EON/cd487a71-34ef-4794-8b8f-13187a10e539/application","descriptionHtml":"EON is building the highest-throughput point-to-point data transport network ever deployed in space. Using free-space laser links in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), we move petabytes of data between any two points on Earth as an alternative to subsea or terrestrial fiber. EON recently closed a $10.75M seed financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in their first-ever co-led space deal. EON is building out of its R&D center in Culver City.
Today, approximately 95% of the global internet travels through a few hundred subsea fiber-optic cables, infrastructure designed in the early 2000s that has gone largely unchanged. Demand for new fiber has never been higher, but laying it is extraordinarily difficult: permits, ocean geology, and geopolitical boundaries make every new cable a years-long, billion-dollar undertaking. That bottleneck is a liability with cables at constant risk of being cut, whether by accident or adversarial action, and no amount of ground-based investment can fully solve it.
EON's optical hardware runs on electronics at every layer: the boards that drive and measure optical components, the high-speed signal chain under the coherent transceiver, and the flight electronics of the payload itself. We are seeking electrical engineers across these concentrations, and we'll put you where your depth matters most. You'll partner with the optical seats whose hardware your electronics power, drive, and measure, and work alongside the other EEs across the terminal and payload.
1. Board-Level & Bring-Up
You design and bring up the boards under every optical component: driver electronics (laser drivers, EDFA pump drivers, TEC controllers), photodetector and sensor readout, control and interface boards, bench power, and harnessing. You may excel here if you've owned boards from schematic through layout, and bring-up and debug with a scope in hand is your comfort zone.
2. Modem & High-Speed Mixed-Signal
You own the high-speed signal chain under the coherent transceiver: ADC/DAC interfaces, low-jitter clocking, multi-Gbaud modem boards, and the FPGA gateware carrying real-time DSP. You may excel here if you've shipped multi-GHz mixed-signal designs or gateware validated on real hardware, and signal integrity is second nature.
3. Spaceflight / Payload Hardware
You take the payload's opto-electronic boards from bench-grade to space-qualified flight hardware: EEE parts selection, derating, radiation tolerance, and qualification campaigns through thermal-vac and vibration. You may excel here if you've built electronics that survived launch, vacuum, and radiation.
Not sure, or a strong generalist?
If you move across board design, high-speed work, and flight hardware rather than living in one concentration, that's a seat too. You'll grow into the concentration that fits you best as the electronics team takes shape.
Design, lay out, and bring up electronics across the terminal and payload, owning your boards from schematic through validated hardware
Define electrical interfaces with the optical seats, translating each subsystem's power, drive, and readout needs into schematics and boards
Select, evaluate, and qualify components, balancing performance, availability, and lead time at seed-stage speed
Characterize and debug at the bench, chasing issues across electrical, optical, and software boundaries
Support integration and test as the optical chain and payload come together
Document designs, test results, and bring-up procedures so hardware can be rebuilt and debugged by others
Bachelor's or advanced degree in electrical engineering or a related discipline
Board-level design experience across schematic capture and PCB layout
Hands-on bring-up and debug depth with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and lab instrumentation
Analog and mixed-signal circuit fundamentals
Proficiency with a professional EDA tool (Altium Designer, KiCad, Cadence, or equivalent)
Comfort moving fast and making sound calls without complete data
Driver electronics for optical or photonic components: laser diode drivers, TEC controllers, or EDFA pump drivers
Photodetector or low-noise sensor readout design (TIAs, precision ADC front ends)
High-speed design: multi-GHz signal chains, SerDes, controlled impedance, and SI/PI analysis
FPGA development (RTL in Verilog or VHDL) validated on real hardware
Flight or space-qualified electronics: radiation-tolerant design, EEE parts flows, derating, and worst-case analysis
Environmental qualification campaigns (vibration, thermal-vac, EMI/EMC)
Power architecture design: distribution, sequencing, and protection for multi-rail systems
Python or MATLAB for test automation and measurement post-processing
A note on level and background: We hire this role at all levels, from Associate through Senior and Principal Electrical Engineer, and calibrate title, scope, and compensation to your experience. If this list doesn't perfectly match your background still reach out. We are always looking for exceptional people from many disciplines.
We're a seed-stage company building toward first light on a single-route demonstrator. There's no program office and no requirements team. Your boards will sit under lasers, amplifiers, detectors, and eventually a payload in orbit, and you'll spend real time at the bench with the hardware they drive. If you do your best work inside a large, well-resourced program, this isn't it. If you want your fingerprints on a Tbps-class link from the start, this is it.
In addition to base salary (to be determined on a case by case basis), compensation for this role includes:
EON believes the business should be primarily employee owned. In turn, all compensation offers include company stock options for FTEs.
Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance with significant cost covered by the company for yourself and dependents.
Paid parental leave and flexible PTO (3 weeks accrued vacation and 10 company holidays per year).
Relocation assistance to Los Angeles available.
A real equipment and lab budget.
Location: Culver City, CA (onsite).
Endeavor Optical Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EON 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT EON\n\nEON is building the highest-throughput point-to-point data transport network ever deployed in space. Using free-space laser links in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), we move petabytes of data between any two points on Earth as an alternative to subsea or terrestrial fiber. EON recently closed a $10.75M seed financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in their first-ever co-led space deal. EON is building out of its R&D center in Culver City.\n\nToday, approximately 95% of the global internet travels through a few hundred subsea fiber-optic cables, infrastructure designed in the early 2000s that has gone largely unchanged. Demand for new fiber has never been higher, but laying it is extraordinarily difficult: permits, ocean geology, and geopolitical boundaries make every new cable a years-long, billion-dollar undertaking. That bottleneck is a liability with cables at constant risk of being cut, whether by accident or adversarial action, and no amount of ground-based investment can fully solve it.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nEON's optical hardware runs on electronics at every layer: the boards that drive and measure optical components, the high-speed signal chain under the coherent transceiver, and the flight electronics of the payload itself. We are seeking electrical engineers across these concentrations, and we'll put you where your depth matters most. You'll partner with the optical seats whose hardware your electronics power, drive, and measure, and work alongside the other EEs across the terminal and payload.\n\n\n\n\nCONCENTRATIONS\n\n1. Board-Level & Bring-Up\nYou design and bring up the boards under every optical component: driver electronics (laser drivers, EDFA pump drivers, TEC controllers), photodetector and sensor readout, control and interface boards, bench power, and harnessing. You may excel here if you've owned boards from schematic through layout, and bring-up and debug with a scope in hand is your comfort zone.\n\n2. Modem & High-Speed Mixed-Signal\nYou own the high-speed signal chain under the coherent transceiver: ADC/DAC interfaces, low-jitter clocking, multi-Gbaud modem boards, and the FPGA gateware carrying real-time DSP. You may excel here if you've shipped multi-GHz mixed-signal designs or gateware validated on real hardware, and signal integrity is second nature.\n\n3. Spaceflight / Payload Hardware\nYou take the payload's opto-electronic boards from bench-grade to space-qualified flight hardware: EEE parts selection, derating, radiation tolerance, and qualification campaigns through thermal-vac and vibration. You may excel here if you've built electronics that survived launch, vacuum, and radiation.\n\nNot sure, or a strong generalist?\nIf you move across board design, high-speed work, and flight hardware rather than living in one concentration, that's a seat too. You'll grow into the concentration that fits you best as the electronics team takes shape.\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Design, lay out, and bring up electronics across the terminal and payload, owning your boards from schematic through validated hardware\n\n - Define electrical interfaces with the optical seats, translating each subsystem's power, drive, and readout needs into schematics and boards\n\n - Select, evaluate, and qualify components, balancing performance, availability, and lead time at seed-stage speed\n\n - Characterize and debug at the bench, chasing issues across electrical, optical, and software boundaries\n\n - Support integration and test as the optical chain and payload come together\n\n - Document designs, test results, and bring-up procedures so hardware can be rebuilt and debugged by others\n\n\nBASIC QUALIFICATIONS\n\n - Bachelor's or advanced degree in electrical engineering or a related discipline\n\n - Board-level design experience across schematic capture and PCB layout\n\n - Hands-on bring-up and debug depth with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and lab instrumentation\n\n - Analog and mixed-signal circuit fundamentals\n\n - Proficiency with a professional EDA tool (Altium Designer, KiCad, Cadence, or equivalent)\n\n - Comfort moving fast and making sound calls without complete data\n\n\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE\n\n - Driver electronics for optical or photonic components: laser diode drivers, TEC controllers, or EDFA pump drivers\n\n - Photodetector or low-noise sensor readout design (TIAs, precision ADC front ends)\n\n - High-speed design: multi-GHz signal chains, SerDes, controlled impedance, and SI/PI analysis\n\n - FPGA development (RTL in Verilog or VHDL) validated on real hardware\n\n - Flight or space-qualified electronics: radiation-tolerant design, EEE parts flows, derating, and worst-case analysis\n\n - Environmental qualification campaigns (vibration, thermal-vac, EMI/EMC)\n\n - Power architecture design: distribution, sequencing, and protection for multi-rail systems\n\n - Python or MATLAB for test automation and measurement post-processing\n\nA note on level and background: We hire this role at all levels, from Associate through Senior and Principal Electrical Engineer, and calibrate title, scope, and compensation to your experience. If this list doesn't perfectly match your background still reach out. We are always looking for exceptional people from many disciplines.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT THIS JOB IS REALLY LIKE\n\nWe're a seed-stage company building toward first light on a single-route demonstrator. There's no program office and no requirements team. Your boards will sit under lasers, amplifiers, detectors, and eventually a payload in orbit, and you'll spend real time at the bench with the hardware they drive. If you do your best work inside a large, well-resourced program, this isn't it. If you want your fingerprints on a Tbps-class link from the start, this is it.\n\n\n\n\nCOMPENSATION + BENEFITS\n\nIn addition to base salary (to be determined on a case by case basis), compensation for this role includes:\n\n - EON believes the business should be primarily employee owned. In turn, all compensation offers include company stock options for FTEs.\n\n - Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance with significant cost covered by the company for yourself and dependents.\n\n - Paid parental leave and flexible PTO (3 weeks accrued vacation and 10 company holidays per year).\n\n - Relocation assistance to Los Angeles available.\n\n - A real equipment and lab budget.\n\nLocation: Culver City, CA (onsite).\n\nEndeavor Optical Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EON 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."},{"id":"0b375b6f-6ee0-440e-abf8-914336e40ded","title":"GNC Engineer - All Levels","department":"Lasercom","team":"Founding Engineers (Batch 0)","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Culver City, CA","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-04T03:08:39.255+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Los Angeles"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EON/0b375b6f-6ee0-440e-abf8-914336e40ded","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EON/0b375b6f-6ee0-440e-abf8-914336e40ded/application","descriptionHtml":"EON is building the highest-throughput point-to-point data transport network ever deployed in space. Using free-space laser links in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), we move petabytes of data between any two points on Earth as an alternative to subsea or terrestrial fiber. EON recently closed a $10.75M seed financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in their first-ever co-led space deal. EON is building out of its R&D center in Culver City.
Today, approximately 95% of the global internet travels through a few hundred subsea fiber-optic cables, infrastructure designed in the early 2000s that has gone largely unchanged. Demand for new fiber has never been higher, but laying it is extraordinarily difficult: permits, ocean geology, and geopolitical boundaries make every new cable a years-long, billion-dollar undertaking. That bottleneck is a liability with cables at constant risk of being cut, whether by accident or adversarial action, and no amount of ground-based investment can fully solve it.
EON's platform has to point where the link needs it, when it needs it, and we have to prove that in simulation long before first light. We are seeking GNC engineers across the pointing chain: platform pointing, acquisition, and the modeling environment that proves the whole chain out. If you run deep in one concentration below we'll put you where your depth matters most, and if you move across GNC you'll help tie the platform-pointing and simulation work together.
1. Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking (PAT)
You own the platform side of acquisition: the strategy and sequence that finds the other terminal, from open-loop pointing off ephemeris through scan-and-stare search, detection, and coarse track, up to handoff to the Lasercom PAT loop for fine steering and beam lock. You define the acquisition timeline and probability budget and prove both in simulation before flight. You may excel here if you've designed acquisition sequences or closed-loop coarse tracking for line-of-sight systems (lasercom, optical crosslinks, seekers, or similar) and can defend an acquisition probability budget.
2. Flight Dynamics & Navigation
You own where the platform points and how it gets there: orbit and ephemeris, the body-pointing error budget, and the pointing solution the acquisition sequence runs on. You consume the bus attitude solution and layer the pointing and geometry on top, feeding the PAT concentration's acquisition sequence. You may excel here if you've done orbit/ephemeris, pointing-geometry, and attitude work and can own a body-pointing error budget.
3. Simulation & Performance
You own the simulation environment the rest of the pointing team designs and validates against: 6-DOF platform dynamics, orbit and relative geometry, sensor and actuator models, the atmospheric channel, the Monte Carlo campaigns that show the link closes across the envelope, and the hardware-in-the-loop path as components arrive. You may excel here if you've built 6-DOF or Monte Carlo simulation frameworks that other engineers design and validate against.
Not sure, or a strong generalist?
If you move across GNC rather than living in one discipline, that's a seat too. You'll help tie platform pointing and the modeling environment together and grow into the concentration that fits you best.
Own a distinct piece of the pointing chain, from orbit and attitude through acquisition handoff, and carry it from concept through first light
Build and defend the body-pointing and acquisition error budgets against the system-level link budget
Model, simulate, and analyze platform dynamics, geometry, and pointing performance, and validate models against hardware as it arrives
Define interfaces with the bus vendor, the Lasercom PAT loop, and the optical seats, driving trade-offs where pointing and optical performance are tightly coupled
Identify the highest-risk assumptions in the pointing chain early and retire them through simulation, analysis, and hardware-in-the-loop test
Set and defend technical direction with incomplete data, documenting your reasoning so the team can build on it
A degree in aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, physics, computer science, or a related technical field
Fundamentals across GNC (attitude determination and control, orbit/ephemeris, and pointing), with enough depth to reason about the pointing chain end to end
Programming for modeling, analysis, or test (Python, MATLAB/Simulink, or similar)
Comfort moving fast and making sound calls without complete data
Lasercom, optical pointing, or precision line-of-sight pointing experience
Spacecraft ADCS, orbit determination, or flight-dynamics/ephemeris work
Acquisition sequence design for optical crosslinks or ground-to-space links, including scan strategies and acquisition probability analysis
6-DOF, Monte Carlo, or hardware-in-the-loop simulation, including frameworks other engineers design against
Estimation depth: Kalman filtering, sensor fusion, or state estimation
Familiarity with astrodynamics and simulation tools (STK, GMAT, FreeFlyer, Basilisk, or similar)
Experience working to a bus vendor's attitude solution and interface
A note on level and background: We hire this role at all levels, from Associate through Senior and Principal GNC Engineer, and calibrate title, scope, and compensation to your experience. If this list doesn't perfectly match your background still reach out. We are always looking for exceptional people from many disciplines.
We're a seed-stage company building toward first light on a single-route demonstrator. There's no program office and no requirements team. As part of EON you'll own your piece of the pointing chain, defend your calls on incomplete data, and build the simulations the rest of the team designs against before there's hardware to point. When hardware does arrive, you'll be in the loop with it, not just reviewing plots. If you do your best work inside a large, well-resourced program, this isn't it. If you want your fingerprints on a Tbps-class link from the start, this is it.
In addition to base salary (to be determined on a case by case basis), compensation for this role includes:
EON believes the business should be primarily employee owned. In turn, all compensation offers include company stock options for FTEs.
Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance with significant cost covered by the company for yourself and dependents.
Paid parental leave and flexible PTO (3 weeks accrued vacation and 10 company holidays per year).
Relocation assistance to Los Angeles available.
A real equipment and lab budget.
Location: Culver City, CA (onsite).
Endeavor Optical Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EON 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT EON\n\nEON is building the highest-throughput point-to-point data transport network ever deployed in space. Using free-space laser links in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), we move petabytes of data between any two points on Earth as an alternative to subsea or terrestrial fiber. EON recently closed a $10.75M seed financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in their first-ever co-led space deal. EON is building out of its R&D center in Culver City.\n\nToday, approximately 95% of the global internet travels through a few hundred subsea fiber-optic cables, infrastructure designed in the early 2000s that has gone largely unchanged. Demand for new fiber has never been higher, but laying it is extraordinarily difficult: permits, ocean geology, and geopolitical boundaries make every new cable a years-long, billion-dollar undertaking. That bottleneck is a liability with cables at constant risk of being cut, whether by accident or adversarial action, and no amount of ground-based investment can fully solve it.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nEON's platform has to point where the link needs it, when it needs it, and we have to prove that in simulation long before first light. We are seeking GNC engineers across the pointing chain: platform pointing, acquisition, and the modeling environment that proves the whole chain out. If you run deep in one concentration below we'll put you where your depth matters most, and if you move across GNC you'll help tie the platform-pointing and simulation work together.\n\n\n\n\nCONCENTRATIONS\n\n1. Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking (PAT)\nYou own the platform side of acquisition: the strategy and sequence that finds the other terminal, from open-loop pointing off ephemeris through scan-and-stare search, detection, and coarse track, up to handoff to the Lasercom PAT loop for fine steering and beam lock. You define the acquisition timeline and probability budget and prove both in simulation before flight. You may excel here if you've designed acquisition sequences or closed-loop coarse tracking for line-of-sight systems (lasercom, optical crosslinks, seekers, or similar) and can defend an acquisition probability budget.\n\n2. Flight Dynamics & Navigation\nYou own where the platform points and how it gets there: orbit and ephemeris, the body-pointing error budget, and the pointing solution the acquisition sequence runs on. You consume the bus attitude solution and layer the pointing and geometry on top, feeding the PAT concentration's acquisition sequence. You may excel here if you've done orbit/ephemeris, pointing-geometry, and attitude work and can own a body-pointing error budget.\n\n3. Simulation & Performance\nYou own the simulation environment the rest of the pointing team designs and validates against: 6-DOF platform dynamics, orbit and relative geometry, sensor and actuator models, the atmospheric channel, the Monte Carlo campaigns that show the link closes across the envelope, and the hardware-in-the-loop path as components arrive. You may excel here if you've built 6-DOF or Monte Carlo simulation frameworks that other engineers design and validate against.\n\nNot sure, or a strong generalist?\nIf you move across GNC rather than living in one discipline, that's a seat too. You'll help tie platform pointing and the modeling environment together and grow into the concentration that fits you best.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Own a distinct piece of the pointing chain, from orbit and attitude through acquisition handoff, and carry it from concept through first light\n\n - Build and defend the body-pointing and acquisition error budgets against the system-level link budget\n\n - Model, simulate, and analyze platform dynamics, geometry, and pointing performance, and validate models against hardware as it arrives\n\n - Define interfaces with the bus vendor, the Lasercom PAT loop, and the optical seats, driving trade-offs where pointing and optical performance are tightly coupled\n\n - Identify the highest-risk assumptions in the pointing chain early and retire them through simulation, analysis, and hardware-in-the-loop test\n\n - Set and defend technical direction with incomplete data, documenting your reasoning so the team can build on it\n\n\nBASIC QUALIFICATIONS\n\n - A degree in aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, physics, computer science, or a related technical field\n\n - Fundamentals across GNC (attitude determination and control, orbit/ephemeris, and pointing), with enough depth to reason about the pointing chain end to end\n\n - Programming for modeling, analysis, or test (Python, MATLAB/Simulink, or similar)\n\n - Comfort moving fast and making sound calls without complete data\n\n\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE\n\n - Lasercom, optical pointing, or precision line-of-sight pointing experience\n\n - Spacecraft ADCS, orbit determination, or flight-dynamics/ephemeris work\n\n - Acquisition sequence design for optical crosslinks or ground-to-space links, including scan strategies and acquisition probability analysis\n\n - 6-DOF, Monte Carlo, or hardware-in-the-loop simulation, including frameworks other engineers design against\n\n - Estimation depth: Kalman filtering, sensor fusion, or state estimation\n\n - Familiarity with astrodynamics and simulation tools (STK, GMAT, FreeFlyer, Basilisk, or similar)\n\n - Experience working to a bus vendor's attitude solution and interface\n\nA note on level and background: We hire this role at all levels, from Associate through Senior and Principal GNC Engineer, and calibrate title, scope, and compensation to your experience. If this list doesn't perfectly match your background still reach out. We are always looking for exceptional people from many disciplines.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT THIS JOB IS REALLY LIKE\n\nWe're a seed-stage company building toward first light on a single-route demonstrator. There's no program office and no requirements team. As part of EON you'll own your piece of the pointing chain, defend your calls on incomplete data, and build the simulations the rest of the team designs against before there's hardware to point. When hardware does arrive, you'll be in the loop with it, not just reviewing plots. If you do your best work inside a large, well-resourced program, this isn't it. If you want your fingerprints on a Tbps-class link from the start, this is it.\n\n\n\n\nCOMPENSATION + BENEFITS\n\nIn addition to base salary (to be determined on a case by case basis), compensation for this role includes:\n\n - EON believes the business should be primarily employee owned. In turn, all compensation offers include company stock options for FTEs.\n\n - Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance with significant cost covered by the company for yourself and dependents.\n\n - Paid parental leave and flexible PTO (3 weeks accrued vacation and 10 company holidays per year).\n\n - Relocation assistance to Los Angeles available.\n\n - A real equipment and lab budget.\n\nLocation: Culver City, CA (onsite).\n\nEndeavor Optical Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EON 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."},{"id":"7af57834-5af7-4e55-91a5-29e0a6fc8a29","title":"Optomechanical Engineer - All Levels","department":"Lasercom","team":"Founding Engineers (Batch 0)","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Culver City, CA","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-04T03:11:36.708+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Los Angeles"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EON/7af57834-5af7-4e55-91a5-29e0a6fc8a29","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EON/7af57834-5af7-4e55-91a5-29e0a6fc8a29/application","descriptionHtml":"EON is building the highest-throughput point-to-point data transport network ever deployed in space. Using free-space laser links in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), we move petabytes of data between any two points on Earth as an alternative to subsea or terrestrial fiber. EON recently closed a $10.75M seed financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in their first-ever co-led space deal. EON is building out of its R&D center in Culver City.
Today, approximately 95% of the global internet travels through a few hundred subsea fiber-optic cables, infrastructure designed in the early 2000s that has gone largely unchanged. Demand for new fiber has never been higher, but laying it is extraordinarily difficult: permits, ocean geology, and geopolitical boundaries make every new cable a years-long, billion-dollar undertaking. That bottleneck is a liability with cables at constant risk of being cut, whether by accident or adversarial action, and no amount of ground-based investment can fully solve it.
Our optics have to be mounted to sub-micron precision and stay aligned under thermal swings, vibration, and handling. We are seeking optomechanical engineers to design the assemblies the beam path rides on and the alignment schemes that keep them true from bench to field. Your work may look like partnering with Optical Design on tolerancing and alignment budgets and with Thermal on the structural-thermal-optical behavior that drives alignment stability.
Design optomechanical assemblies for EON's laser communications terminals, and carry them from concept through first light
Design mounts, flexures, and kinematic schemes that hold sub-micron alignment under real loads
Contribute to the line-of-sight error budget: structural dynamics, tolerance stack-up, jitter analysis, and pointing calibration
Analyze mechanical and thermal stability of the optical train, supporting structural-thermal-optical (STOP) analysis in partnership with Thermal
Drive tolerance and alignment-budget trades with Optical Design, where optical and mechanical performance are tightly coupled
Execute alignment verification and metrology, confirming assemblies meet their budgets on the bench and after environmental exposure
Support environmental test and qualification (vibration, shock, thermal-vac) that proves assemblies hold alignment through launch and field conditions
A degree in mechanical engineering, optical engineering, physics, or a related discipline
Optomechanical design experience, including mounts, flexures, or kinematic design
Hands-on alignment and integration of precision optical assemblies
Proficiency in 3D CAD (NX, SolidWorks, Creo, or equivalent)
Comfort moving fast and making sound calls without complete data
Space or airborne optomechanical hardware, including launch-load and on-orbit stability design
Lasercom or optical communications terminal experience
Structural FEA (ANSYS Mechanical or equivalent) and structural-thermal-optical reasoning
Athermalization and materials selection for stability: CTE matching, low-expansion materials (Invar, Zerodur, silicon carbide), and bonded versus mechanical mounting trades
Fiber-coupling optomechanics: fiber-to-collimator alignment, fiber positioners, or coupling-stability design
Alignment-verification and metrology methods for precision optical hardware
Environmental test and qualification (vibration, shock, thermal-vac) for precision hardware
Cleanliness and contamination control for optical assemblies, including handling, bake-out, and outgassing requirements
A note on level and background: We hire this role at all levels, from Associate through Senior and Principal Optomechanical Engineer, and calibrate title, scope, and compensation to your experience. If this list doesn't perfectly match your background still reach out. We are always looking for exceptional people from many disciplines.
EON is a lean company by design. There is no program office, no requirements team handing you specs, and no army of analysts. You will build the models, make the calls on incomplete data, and be forced to defend and revise them. You will spend meaningful hands-on time in the lab, not just in reviews. If you do your best work inside a large, well-resourced program, this isn't it. If you want your fingerprints on a Tbps-class link from the start, this is it.
In addition to base salary (to be determined on a case by case basis), compensation for this role includes:
EON believes the business should be primarily employee owned. In turn, all compensation offers include company stock options for FTEs.
Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance with significant cost covered by the company for yourself and dependents.
Paid parental leave and flexible PTO (3 weeks accrued vacation and 10 company holidays per year).
Relocation assistance to Los Angeles available.
A real equipment and lab budget.
Location: Culver City, CA (onsite).
Endeavor Optical Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EON 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT EON\n\nEON is building the highest-throughput point-to-point data transport network ever deployed in space. Using free-space laser links in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), we move petabytes of data between any two points on Earth as an alternative to subsea or terrestrial fiber. EON recently closed a $10.75M seed financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in their first-ever co-led space deal. EON is building out of its R&D center in Culver City.\n\nToday, approximately 95% of the global internet travels through a few hundred subsea fiber-optic cables, infrastructure designed in the early 2000s that has gone largely unchanged. Demand for new fiber has never been higher, but laying it is extraordinarily difficult: permits, ocean geology, and geopolitical boundaries make every new cable a years-long, billion-dollar undertaking. That bottleneck is a liability with cables at constant risk of being cut, whether by accident or adversarial action, and no amount of ground-based investment can fully solve it.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nOur optics have to be mounted to sub-micron precision and stay aligned under thermal swings, vibration, and handling. We are seeking optomechanical engineers to design the assemblies the beam path rides on and the alignment schemes that keep them true from bench to field. Your work may look like partnering with Optical Design on tolerancing and alignment budgets and with Thermal on the structural-thermal-optical behavior that drives alignment stability.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Design optomechanical assemblies for EON's laser communications terminals, and carry them from concept through first light\n\n - Design mounts, flexures, and kinematic schemes that hold sub-micron alignment under real loads\n\n - Contribute to the line-of-sight error budget: structural dynamics, tolerance stack-up, jitter analysis, and pointing calibration\n\n - Analyze mechanical and thermal stability of the optical train, supporting structural-thermal-optical (STOP) analysis in partnership with Thermal\n\n - Drive tolerance and alignment-budget trades with Optical Design, where optical and mechanical performance are tightly coupled\n\n - Execute alignment verification and metrology, confirming assemblies meet their budgets on the bench and after environmental exposure\n\n - Support environmental test and qualification (vibration, shock, thermal-vac) that proves assemblies hold alignment through launch and field conditions\n\n\nBASIC QUALIFICATIONS\n\n - A degree in mechanical engineering, optical engineering, physics, or a related discipline\n\n - Optomechanical design experience, including mounts, flexures, or kinematic design\n\n - Hands-on alignment and integration of precision optical assemblies\n\n - Proficiency in 3D CAD (NX, SolidWorks, Creo, or equivalent)\n\n - Comfort moving fast and making sound calls without complete data\n\n\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE\n\n - Space or airborne optomechanical hardware, including launch-load and on-orbit stability design\n\n - Lasercom or optical communications terminal experience\n\n - Structural FEA (ANSYS Mechanical or equivalent) and structural-thermal-optical reasoning\n\n - Athermalization and materials selection for stability: CTE matching, low-expansion materials (Invar, Zerodur, silicon carbide), and bonded versus mechanical mounting trades\n\n - Fiber-coupling optomechanics: fiber-to-collimator alignment, fiber positioners, or coupling-stability design\n\n - Alignment-verification and metrology methods for precision optical hardware\n\n - Environmental test and qualification (vibration, shock, thermal-vac) for precision hardware\n\n - Cleanliness and contamination control for optical assemblies, including handling, bake-out, and outgassing requirements\n\nA note on level and background: We hire this role at all levels, from Associate through Senior and Principal Optomechanical Engineer, and calibrate title, scope, and compensation to your experience. If this list doesn't perfectly match your background still reach out. We are always looking for exceptional people from many disciplines.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT THIS JOB IS REALLY LIKE\n\nEON is a lean company by design. There is no program office, no requirements team handing you specs, and no army of analysts. You will build the models, make the calls on incomplete data, and be forced to defend and revise them. You will spend meaningful hands-on time in the lab, not just in reviews. If you do your best work inside a large, well-resourced program, this isn't it. If you want your fingerprints on a Tbps-class link from the start, this is it.\n\n\n\n\nCOMPENSATION + BENEFITS\n\nIn addition to base salary (to be determined on a case by case basis), compensation for this role includes:\n\n - EON believes the business should be primarily employee owned. In turn, all compensation offers include company stock options for FTEs.\n\n - Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance with significant cost covered by the company for yourself and dependents.\n\n - Paid parental leave and flexible PTO (3 weeks accrued vacation and 10 company holidays per year).\n\n - Relocation assistance to Los Angeles available.\n\n - A real equipment and lab budget.\n\nLocation: Culver City, CA (onsite).\n\nEndeavor Optical Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EON 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."},{"id":"5ce55030-a10c-4338-9228-12eeedd347ea","title":"Lasercom Engineer - All Levels","department":"Lasercom","team":"Founding Engineers (Batch 0)","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Culver City, CA","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-04T03:16:01.660+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Los Angeles"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EON/5ce55030-a10c-4338-9228-12eeedd347ea","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EON/5ce55030-a10c-4338-9228-12eeedd347ea/application","descriptionHtml":"EON is building the highest-throughput point-to-point data transport network ever deployed in space. Using free-space laser links in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), we move petabytes of data between any two points on Earth as an alternative to subsea or terrestrial fiber. EON recently closed a $10.75M seed financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in their first-ever co-led space deal. EON is building out of its R&D center in Culver City.
Today, approximately 95% of the global internet travels through a few hundred subsea fiber-optic cables, infrastructure designed in the early 2000s that has gone largely unchanged. Demand for new fiber has never been higher, but laying it is extraordinarily difficult: permits, ocean geology, and geopolitical boundaries make every new cable a years-long, billion-dollar undertaking. That bottleneck is a liability with cables at constant risk of being cut, whether by accident or adversarial action, and no amount of ground-based investment can fully solve it.
EON is currently hiring our founding laser communications (Lasercom) team and seeking engineers who want to build the network infrastructure of the modern world and grow a real business from the ground up. Engineers at EON work across the full breadth of optical systems, from free-space link design to ground terminal hardware, solving problems that are real, hands-on, and consequential.
EON is building Tbps-class optical links to MEO, and every piece of the optical chain needs an owner, from the physics through hardware in space. If you run deep in a specific concentration (coherent communications, amplification and beam control, optical design, optomechanics, pointing, or test and integration) we'll put you on the part of the system where your depth matters most, and your work will directly gate first light on our single-route demonstrator and enable the full constellation. If you're a strong generalist who can move across the chain, you'll help integrate it end to end and grow into the seat that fits you best. Either way, you join the first wave of the optical team, work directly with engineers across the lasercom team, and own hardware that ships.
Below are some of the concentrations we're building in. Don't worry about being a perfect match, and if your experience leans toward one of these, or spans several, tell us and we'll find the right seat together.
A note on level and background: We hire this role at all levels, from Associate through Senior and Principal Lasercom Engineer, and calibrate title, scope, and compensation to your experience. If this list doesn't perfectly match your background still reach out. We are always looking for exceptional people from many disciplines.
Own a distinct link in the optical chain and carry it from concept through first light
Design and model your subsystem against system-level targets
Build, characterize, and debug hardware at the bench, standing up test setups and validating performance against your own analysis
Define interfaces and integration constraints with engineers across the lasercom chain, driving co-design trade-offs where optical, electrical, and mechanical performance are tightly coupled
Identify the highest-risk assumptions in your subsystem early and retire them through analysis, prototyping, and test
Set and defend technical direction with incomplete data, documenting your reasoning so the team can build on it
1. System Architecture
You own the link end to end: link budget, FEC strategy, OSNR and availability targets, and how the optical, atmospheric, and orbital pieces fit together. You set the targets that the team will design against. You may excel here if you've owned a full lasercom link budget end to end and can defend every assumption in it.
2. Coherent Communications
You work in coherent transceivers, DSP, and forward error correction. You've designed modems, written or tuned soft-decision LDPC, equalization, and modulation, and you can reason about a link budget from the waveform up. You may excel here if you've designed modems or coherent DSP and reason natively in OSNR, symbol rates, and coding margin.
3. Amplifiers & Beam Control
You work in optical amplification and beam forming: EDFAs, pump design, optical power, and the beam control needed to close a MEO link. You may excel here if you've closed link budgets through optical amplification and beam control.
4. Optical Design
You design the telescope, back end optics, and free-space optical path that gets the beam out and brings it back. Zemax/Code V are your daily tools. FRED is a plus. You may excel here if you've designed free-space optical paths and telescopes in Zemax or Code V.
5. Pointing, Acquisition & Tracking (PAT)
You acquire and hold a beam on a MEO satellite across a multi-hour pass, through atmospheric turbulence. Nothing transmits without you. You may excel here if closed-loop pointing and tracking through atmospheric turbulence is your core discipline.
6. Test & Integration
You stand up the lab and test bench, then integrate the optical chain end to end, even before there's final hardware to integrate. You may excel here if you've stood up optical test benches and integrated a signal chain end to end.
Not sure, or a strong generalist?
If you run deep across the chain rather than in one box, that's a seat too. You'll help integrate the system end to end and grow into the concentration that fits you best.
A degree in physics, optical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related
technical field.
Hands-on lab experience in optics, photonics, lasers, or precision optical
hardware.
Strong fundamentals in optics and photonics, with the analytical depth to reason
about a link end to end.
Programming for modeling, analysis, or test (Python, MATLAB, or similar).
Comfort moving fast and making sound calls without complete data.
Direct free-space optics or laser communications experience, on the ground segment or space segment
Coherent optical communications or terrestrial high-data-rate telecom background (transceivers, DSP, FEC)
Familiarity with pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) and atmospheric optical effects
Proficiency with optical design and analysis tools (e.g., Zemax, Code V; FRED a plus)
Experience taking optical hardware from prototype through integration, environmental test, or field deployment
We're a seed-stage company building toward first light on a single-route demonstrator. There's no program office and no requirements team. As part of EON you'll own your piece of the chain, defend your calls on incomplete data, and spend real time at the bench. If you do your best work inside a large, well-resourced program, this isn't it. If you want your fingerprints on a Tbps-class link from the start, this is it.
In addition to base salary (to be determined on a case by case basis), compensation for this role includes:
EON believes the business should be primarily employee owned. In turn, all compensation offers include company stock options for FTEs.
Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance with significant cost covered by the company for yourself and dependents.
Paid parental leave and flexible PTO (3 weeks accrued vacation and 10 company holidays per year).
Relocation assistance to Los Angeles available.
A real equipment and lab budget.
Location: Culver City, CA (onsite).
Endeavor Optical Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EON 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT EON\n\nEON is building the highest-throughput point-to-point data transport network ever deployed in space. Using free-space laser links in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), we move petabytes of data between any two points on Earth as an alternative to subsea or terrestrial fiber. EON recently closed a $10.75M seed financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in their first-ever co-led space deal. EON is building out of its R&D center in Culver City.\n\nToday, approximately 95% of the global internet travels through a few hundred subsea fiber-optic cables, infrastructure designed in the early 2000s that has gone largely unchanged. Demand for new fiber has never been higher, but laying it is extraordinarily difficult: permits, ocean geology, and geopolitical boundaries make every new cable a years-long, billion-dollar undertaking. That bottleneck is a liability with cables at constant risk of being cut, whether by accident or adversarial action, and no amount of ground-based investment can fully solve it.\n\nEON is currently hiring our founding laser communications (Lasercom) team and seeking engineers who want to build the network infrastructure of the modern world and grow a real business from the ground up. Engineers at EON work across the full breadth of optical systems, from free-space link design to ground terminal hardware, solving problems that are real, hands-on, and consequential.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nEON is building Tbps-class optical links to MEO, and every piece of the optical chain needs an owner, from the physics through hardware in space. If you run deep in a specific concentration (coherent communications, amplification and beam control, optical design, optomechanics, pointing, or test and integration) we'll put you on the part of the system where your depth matters most, and your work will directly gate first light on our single-route demonstrator and enable the full constellation. If you're a strong generalist who can move across the chain, you'll help integrate it end to end and grow into the seat that fits you best. Either way, you join the first wave of the optical team, work directly with engineers across the lasercom team, and own hardware that ships.\n\nBelow are some of the concentrations we're building in. Don't worry about being a perfect match, and if your experience leans toward one of these, or spans several, tell us and we'll find the right seat together.\n\nA note on level and background: We hire this role at all levels, from Associate through Senior and Principal Lasercom Engineer, and calibrate title, scope, and compensation to your experience. If this list doesn't perfectly match your background still reach out. We are always looking for exceptional people from many disciplines.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Own a distinct link in the optical chain and carry it from concept through first light\n\n - Design and model your subsystem against system-level targets\n\n - Build, characterize, and debug hardware at the bench, standing up test setups and validating performance against your own analysis\n\n - Define interfaces and integration constraints with engineers across the lasercom chain, driving co-design trade-offs where optical, electrical, and mechanical performance are tightly coupled\n\n - Identify the highest-risk assumptions in your subsystem early and retire them through analysis, prototyping, and test\n\n - Set and defend technical direction with incomplete data, documenting your reasoning so the team can build on it\n\n\n\n\nCONCENTRATIONS\n\n1. System Architecture\nYou own the link end to end: link budget, FEC strategy, OSNR and availability targets, and how the optical, atmospheric, and orbital pieces fit together. You set the targets that the team will design against. You may excel here if you've owned a full lasercom link budget end to end and can defend every assumption in it.\n\n2. Coherent Communications\nYou work in coherent transceivers, DSP, and forward error correction. You've designed modems, written or tuned soft-decision LDPC, equalization, and modulation, and you can reason about a link budget from the waveform up. You may excel here if you've designed modems or coherent DSP and reason natively in OSNR, symbol rates, and coding margin.\n\n3. Amplifiers & Beam Control\nYou work in optical amplification and beam forming: EDFAs, pump design, optical power, and the beam control needed to close a MEO link. You may excel here if you've closed link budgets through optical amplification and beam control.\n\n4. Optical Design\nYou design the telescope, back end optics, and free-space optical path that gets the beam out and brings it back. Zemax/Code V are your daily tools. FRED is a plus. You may excel here if you've designed free-space optical paths and telescopes in Zemax or Code V.\n\n5. Pointing, Acquisition & Tracking (PAT)\nYou acquire and hold a beam on a MEO satellite across a multi-hour pass, through atmospheric turbulence. Nothing transmits without you. You may excel here if closed-loop pointing and tracking through atmospheric turbulence is your core discipline.\n\n6. Test & Integration\nYou stand up the lab and test bench, then integrate the optical chain end to end, even before there's final hardware to integrate. You may excel here if you've stood up optical test benches and integrated a signal chain end to end.\n\nNot sure, or a strong generalist?\nIf you run deep across the chain rather than in one box, that's a seat too. You'll help integrate the system end to end and grow into the concentration that fits you best.\n\n\n\n\nBASIC QUALIFICATIONS\n\n - A degree in physics, optical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related\n technical field.\n\n - Hands-on lab experience in optics, photonics, lasers, or precision optical\n hardware.\n\n - Strong fundamentals in optics and photonics, with the analytical depth to reason\n about a link end to end.\n\n - Programming for modeling, analysis, or test (Python, MATLAB, or similar).\n\n - Comfort moving fast and making sound calls without complete data.\n\n\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE\n\n - Direct free-space optics or laser communications experience, on the ground segment or space segment\n\n - Coherent optical communications or terrestrial high-data-rate telecom background (transceivers, DSP, FEC)\n\n - Familiarity with pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) and atmospheric optical effects\n\n - Proficiency with optical design and analysis tools (e.g., Zemax, Code V; FRED a plus)\n\n - Experience taking optical hardware from prototype through integration, environmental test, or field deployment\n\n\n\n\nWHAT THIS JOB IS REALLY LIKE\n\nWe're a seed-stage company building toward first light on a single-route demonstrator. There's no program office and no requirements team. As part of EON you'll own your piece of the chain, defend your calls on incomplete data, and spend real time at the bench. If you do your best work inside a large, well-resourced program, this isn't it. If you want your fingerprints on a Tbps-class link from the start, this is it.\n\n\n\n\nCOMPENSATION + BENEFITS\n\nIn addition to base salary (to be determined on a case by case basis), compensation for this role includes:\n\n - EON believes the business should be primarily employee owned. In turn, all compensation offers include company stock options for FTEs.\n\n - Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance with significant cost covered by the company for yourself and dependents.\n\n - Paid parental leave and flexible PTO (3 weeks accrued vacation and 10 company holidays per year).\n\n - Relocation assistance to Los Angeles available.\n\n - A real equipment and lab budget.\n\nLocation: Culver City, CA (onsite).\n\nEndeavor Optical Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EON 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."},{"id":"35ba790d-6997-43b0-9f3c-168d9dae9401","title":"Software Engineer - Flight and Embedded","department":"Lasercom","team":"Core Optical Team (Batch 1)","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Culver City, CA","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-04T03:19:06.155+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Los Angeles"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EON/35ba790d-6997-43b0-9f3c-168d9dae9401","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EON/35ba790d-6997-43b0-9f3c-168d9dae9401/application","descriptionHtml":"EON is building the highest-throughput point-to-point data transport network ever deployed in space. Using free-space laser links in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), we move petabytes of data between any two points on Earth as an alternative to subsea or terrestrial fiber. EON recently closed a $10.75M seed financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in their first-ever co-led space deal. EON is building out of its R&D center in Culver City.
Today, approximately 95% of the global internet travels through a few hundred subsea fiber-optic cables, infrastructure designed in the early 2000s that has gone largely unchanged. Demand for new fiber has never been higher, but laying it is extraordinarily difficult: permits, ocean geology, and geopolitical boundaries make every new cable a years-long, billion-dollar undertaking. That bottleneck is a liability with cables at constant risk of being cut, whether by accident or adversarial action, and no amount of ground-based investment can fully solve it.
Our optical payload and ground terminal run on embedded software: board-level firmware, the payload application layer, and the real-time code that closes control loops. We are seeking a software engineer to own the flight and embedded stack, from drivers and bring-up support on new boards through commanding, telemetry, and fault management on the payload. You'll partner with the GNC and Lasercom PAT seats, whose control designs you carry into real-time code, and work alongside the EE seats bringing up the hardware your software runs on.
Develop embedded firmware in C/C++ for the terminal and payload electronics: drivers, board support, and deterministic real-time execution on microcontrollers and SoCs
Build the payload application layer: commanding, telemetry, fault detection and management, and the software interface to the bus
Implement control loops in real-time code, carrying designs from the GNC and Lasercom PAT seats into terminal and flight software
Support board bring-up with the EE seats, writing the low-level drivers (I2C, SPI, UART, Ethernet) that make new hardware usable
Instrument everything for observability: logging, telemetry, and diagnostics that serve integration, test, and operations
Stand up the embedded toolchain: build systems, version control, CI, and hardware-in-the-loop test as the stack matures toward flight
Define the path from demonstrator software to flight rigor: fault handling, safing behavior, and update mechanisms
Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related discipline
Embedded development depth in C or C++, spanning bare-metal and RTOS environments
Hands-on hardware bring-up experience, debugging across software and hardware with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG
Low-level peripheral and driver experience (I2C, SPI, UART, ADC, Ethernet)
Python for tooling, test automation, and data analysis
Comfort moving fast and making sound calls without complete data
Flight software experience: cFS, F Prime, CCSDS protocols, or similar frameworks
Real-time control loop implementation alongside controls or GNC engineers
FPGA SoC platforms (Zynq or similar), including the gateware-to-software interface
Fault management and FDIR design for spacecraft or high-reliability systems
Hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure
Telemetry pipelines and ground-interface protocols
Reliability-aware software practice for radiation or safety-critical environments
A note on level and background: We hire this role at all levels, from Associate through Senior and Principal Software Engineer, and calibrate title, scope, and compensation to your experience. If this list doesn't perfectly match your background still reach out. We are always looking for exceptional people from many disciplines.
We're a seed-stage company building toward first light on a single-route demonstrator. There's no program office and no requirements team. Your code is the first thing to run on every new board and the last thing standing between an anomaly and a lost pass, and you'll spend real time at the bench next to the hardware it drives. If you do your best work inside a large, well-resourced program, this isn't it. If you want your fingerprints on a Tbps-class link from the start, this is it.
In addition to base salary (to be determined on a case by case basis), compensation for this role includes:
EON believes the business should be primarily employee owned. In turn, all compensation offers include company stock options for FTEs.
Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance with significant cost covered by the company for yourself and dependents.
Paid parental leave and flexible PTO (3 weeks accrued vacation and 10 company holidays per year).
Relocation assistance to Los Angeles available.
A real equipment and lab budget.
Location: Culver City, CA (onsite).
Endeavor Optical Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EON 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT EON\n\nEON is building the highest-throughput point-to-point data transport network ever deployed in space. Using free-space laser links in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), we move petabytes of data between any two points on Earth as an alternative to subsea or terrestrial fiber. EON recently closed a $10.75M seed financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in their first-ever co-led space deal. EON is building out of its R&D center in Culver City.\n\nToday, approximately 95% of the global internet travels through a few hundred subsea fiber-optic cables, infrastructure designed in the early 2000s that has gone largely unchanged. Demand for new fiber has never been higher, but laying it is extraordinarily difficult: permits, ocean geology, and geopolitical boundaries make every new cable a years-long, billion-dollar undertaking. That bottleneck is a liability with cables at constant risk of being cut, whether by accident or adversarial action, and no amount of ground-based investment can fully solve it.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nOur optical payload and ground terminal run on embedded software: board-level firmware, the payload application layer, and the real-time code that closes control loops. We are seeking a software engineer to own the flight and embedded stack, from drivers and bring-up support on new boards through commanding, telemetry, and fault management on the payload. You'll partner with the GNC and Lasercom PAT seats, whose control designs you carry into real-time code, and work alongside the EE seats bringing up the hardware your software runs on.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Develop embedded firmware in C/C++ for the terminal and payload electronics: drivers, board support, and deterministic real-time execution on microcontrollers and SoCs\n\n - Build the payload application layer: commanding, telemetry, fault detection and management, and the software interface to the bus\n\n - Implement control loops in real-time code, carrying designs from the GNC and Lasercom PAT seats into terminal and flight software\n\n - Support board bring-up with the EE seats, writing the low-level drivers (I2C, SPI, UART, Ethernet) that make new hardware usable\n\n - Instrument everything for observability: logging, telemetry, and diagnostics that serve integration, test, and operations\n\n - Stand up the embedded toolchain: build systems, version control, CI, and hardware-in-the-loop test as the stack matures toward flight\n\n - Define the path from demonstrator software to flight rigor: fault handling, safing behavior, and update mechanisms\n\n\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n - Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related discipline\n\n - Embedded development depth in C or C++, spanning bare-metal and RTOS environments\n\n - Hands-on hardware bring-up experience, debugging across software and hardware with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG\n\n - Low-level peripheral and driver experience (I2C, SPI, UART, ADC, Ethernet)\n\n - Python for tooling, test automation, and data analysis\n\n - Comfort moving fast and making sound calls without complete data\n\n\n\n\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE\n\n - Flight software experience: cFS, F Prime, CCSDS protocols, or similar frameworks\n\n - Real-time control loop implementation alongside controls or GNC engineers\n\n - FPGA SoC platforms (Zynq or similar), including the gateware-to-software interface\n\n - Fault management and FDIR design for spacecraft or high-reliability systems\n\n - Hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure\n\n - Telemetry pipelines and ground-interface protocols\n\n - Reliability-aware software practice for radiation or safety-critical environments\n\nA note on level and background: We hire this role at all levels, from Associate through Senior and Principal Software Engineer, and calibrate title, scope, and compensation to your experience. If this list doesn't perfectly match your background still reach out. We are always looking for exceptional people from many disciplines.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT THIS JOB IS REALLY LIKE\n\nWe're a seed-stage company building toward first light on a single-route demonstrator. There's no program office and no requirements team. Your code is the first thing to run on every new board and the last thing standing between an anomaly and a lost pass, and you'll spend real time at the bench next to the hardware it drives. If you do your best work inside a large, well-resourced program, this isn't it. If you want your fingerprints on a Tbps-class link from the start, this is it.\n\n\n\n\nCOMPENSATION + BENEFITS\n\nIn addition to base salary (to be determined on a case by case basis), compensation for this role includes:\n\n - EON believes the business should be primarily employee owned. In turn, all compensation offers include company stock options for FTEs.\n\n - Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance with significant cost covered by the company for yourself and dependents.\n\n - Paid parental leave and flexible PTO (3 weeks accrued vacation and 10 company holidays per year).\n\n - Relocation assistance to Los Angeles available.\n\n - A real equipment and lab budget.\n\n\n\nLocation: Culver City, CA (onsite).\n\nEndeavor Optical Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EON 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."},{"id":"0d35ec51-0fe6-4e6e-a350-d391de28cbf7","title":"Mechanical Engineer - Mechanisms & Structures","department":"Lasercom","team":"Core Optical Team (Batch 1)","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Culver City, CA","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-04T03:21:33.914+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Los Angeles"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EON/0d35ec51-0fe6-4e6e-a350-d391de28cbf7","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EON/0d35ec51-0fe6-4e6e-a350-d391de28cbf7/application","descriptionHtml":"EON is building the highest-throughput point-to-point data transport network ever deployed in space. Using free-space laser links in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), we move petabytes of data between any two points on Earth as an alternative to subsea or terrestrial fiber. EON recently closed a $10.75M seed financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in their first-ever co-led space deal. EON is building out of its R&D center in Culver City.
Today, approximately 95% of the global internet travels through a few hundred subsea fiber-optic cables, infrastructure designed in the early 2000s that has gone largely unchanged. Demand for new fiber has never been higher, but laying it is extraordinarily difficult: permits, ocean geology, and geopolitical boundaries make every new cable a years-long, billion-dollar undertaking. That bottleneck is a liability with cables at constant risk of being cut, whether by accident or adversarial action, and no amount of ground-based investment can fully solve it.
Our ground terminal needs gimbals, coarse-steering mechanisms, and structures that point a telescope at a moving satellite and survive years in the field, designed from the start for production and repeatable assembly. We are seeking a mechanical engineer to own the terminal's mechanisms and structures, from the demonstrator's first build through designs that can be manufactured for every ground station. You'll own the terminal-scale mechanisms and structures, partnering with the optomechanical seats whose sub-micron optical mounts ride on your hardware, and with the PAT, GNC, and Thermal seats on the budgets that flow through it.
Design the terminal's gimbal and coarse-steering mechanisms: bearings, drives, encoders, and the stiffness and backlash budgets the PAT loop points through
Design the terminal structures: telescope support, enclosures, and the load paths that hold optical alignment through wind, thermal, and handling loads
Own structural analysis for stiffness, modal behavior, and survival loads, and correlate models to test
Define mechanism requirements with the PAT and GNC seats (slew rates, pointing stiffness, jitter contributions) and carry them into hardware
Work with the Thermal seat on the structural-thermal behavior that drives pointing and alignment stability
Drive design-for-manufacturability and repeatable assembly, so the demonstrator terminal becomes a build recipe rather than a one-off
Select and manage suppliers and machine shops for structures and mechanism components, from prototype through production
Support terminal integration and field deployment, owning mechanical issues from bench to site
Bachelor's or advanced degree in mechanical engineering or a related discipline
Mechanism design depth: gimbals, rotation stages, actuators, bearings, and drive trains
Structural design and analysis experience, with proficiency in FEA (ANSYS Mechanical or equivalent)
Proficiency in professional 3D CAD (NX, SolidWorks, Creo, or equivalent), including toleranced drawings for fabrication
Hands-on prototyping, assembly, and test experience
Comfort moving fast and making sound calls without complete data
Precision pointing mechanisms: telescope mounts, antenna gimbals, or tracking pedestals
Designing for outdoor or field-deployed hardware: sealing, corrosion, and wind and seismic loads
Motion-control adjacency: encoders, servo drives, and mechanism-level tuning alongside controls engineers
Design-for-manufacturability and design-for-assembly for low-rate production
Optomechanical adjacency: kinematic mounts, athermalization, or structures that hold optical alignment
Environmental test (vibration, shock, thermal cycling) for mechanisms and structures
Materials selection for stiffness, weight, and thermal stability trades
A note on level and background: We hire this role at all levels, from Associate through Senior and Principal Mechanical Engineer, and calibrate title, scope, and compensation to your experience. If this list doesn't perfectly match your background still reach out. We are always looking for exceptional people from many disciplines.
We're a seed-stage company building toward first light on a single-route demonstrator. There's no program office and no requirements team. The terminal that points at space is your hardware: you'll design it once for the demonstrator, then design it to be built again at every station, and every microradian the pointing loop holds rides on your stiffness budget. If you do your best work inside a large, well-resourced program, this isn't it. If you want your fingerprints on a Tbps-class link from the start, this is it.
In addition to base salary (to be determined on a case by case basis), compensation for this role includes:
EON believes the business should be primarily employee owned. In turn, all compensation offers include company stock options for FTEs.
Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance with significant cost covered by the company for yourself and dependents.
Paid parental leave and flexible PTO (3 weeks accrued vacation and 10 company holidays per year).
Relocation assistance to Los Angeles available.
A real equipment and lab budget.
Location: Culver City, CA (onsite).
Endeavor Optical Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EON 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT EON\n\nEON is building the highest-throughput point-to-point data transport network ever deployed in space. Using free-space laser links in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), we move petabytes of data between any two points on Earth as an alternative to subsea or terrestrial fiber. EON recently closed a $10.75M seed financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in their first-ever co-led space deal. EON is building out of its R&D center in Culver City.\n\nToday, approximately 95% of the global internet travels through a few hundred subsea fiber-optic cables, infrastructure designed in the early 2000s that has gone largely unchanged. Demand for new fiber has never been higher, but laying it is extraordinarily difficult: permits, ocean geology, and geopolitical boundaries make every new cable a years-long, billion-dollar undertaking. That bottleneck is a liability with cables at constant risk of being cut, whether by accident or adversarial action, and no amount of ground-based investment can fully solve it.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nOur ground terminal needs gimbals, coarse-steering mechanisms, and structures that point a telescope at a moving satellite and survive years in the field, designed from the start for production and repeatable assembly. We are seeking a mechanical engineer to own the terminal's mechanisms and structures, from the demonstrator's first build through designs that can be manufactured for every ground station. You'll own the terminal-scale mechanisms and structures, partnering with the optomechanical seats whose sub-micron optical mounts ride on your hardware, and with the PAT, GNC, and Thermal seats on the budgets that flow through it.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Design the terminal's gimbal and coarse-steering mechanisms: bearings, drives, encoders, and the stiffness and backlash budgets the PAT loop points through\n\n - Design the terminal structures: telescope support, enclosures, and the load paths that hold optical alignment through wind, thermal, and handling loads\n\n - Own structural analysis for stiffness, modal behavior, and survival loads, and correlate models to test\n\n - Define mechanism requirements with the PAT and GNC seats (slew rates, pointing stiffness, jitter contributions) and carry them into hardware\n\n - Work with the Thermal seat on the structural-thermal behavior that drives pointing and alignment stability\n\n - Drive design-for-manufacturability and repeatable assembly, so the demonstrator terminal becomes a build recipe rather than a one-off\n\n - Select and manage suppliers and machine shops for structures and mechanism components, from prototype through production\n\n - Support terminal integration and field deployment, owning mechanical issues from bench to site\n\n\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n - Bachelor's or advanced degree in mechanical engineering or a related discipline\n\n - Mechanism design depth: gimbals, rotation stages, actuators, bearings, and drive trains\n\n - Structural design and analysis experience, with proficiency in FEA (ANSYS Mechanical or equivalent)\n\n - Proficiency in professional 3D CAD (NX, SolidWorks, Creo, or equivalent), including toleranced drawings for fabrication\n\n - Hands-on prototyping, assembly, and test experience\n\n - Comfort moving fast and making sound calls without complete data\n\n\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE\n\n - Precision pointing mechanisms: telescope mounts, antenna gimbals, or tracking pedestals\n\n - Designing for outdoor or field-deployed hardware: sealing, corrosion, and wind and seismic loads\n\n - Motion-control adjacency: encoders, servo drives, and mechanism-level tuning alongside controls engineers\n\n - Design-for-manufacturability and design-for-assembly for low-rate production\n\n - Optomechanical adjacency: kinematic mounts, athermalization, or structures that hold optical alignment\n\n - Environmental test (vibration, shock, thermal cycling) for mechanisms and structures\n\n - Materials selection for stiffness, weight, and thermal stability trades\n\nA note on level and background: We hire this role at all levels, from Associate through Senior and Principal Mechanical Engineer, and calibrate title, scope, and compensation to your experience. If this list doesn't perfectly match your background still reach out. We are always looking for exceptional people from many disciplines.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT THIS JOB IS REALLY LIKE\n\nWe're a seed-stage company building toward first light on a single-route demonstrator. There's no program office and no requirements team. The terminal that points at space is your hardware: you'll design it once for the demonstrator, then design it to be built again at every station, and every microradian the pointing loop holds rides on your stiffness budget. If you do your best work inside a large, well-resourced program, this isn't it. If you want your fingerprints on a Tbps-class link from the start, this is it.\n\n\n\n\nCOMPENSATION + BENEFITS\n\nIn addition to base salary (to be determined on a case by case basis), compensation for this role includes:\n\n - EON believes the business should be primarily employee owned. In turn, all compensation offers include company stock options for FTEs.\n\n - Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance with significant cost covered by the company for yourself and dependents.\n\n - Paid parental leave and flexible PTO (3 weeks accrued vacation and 10 company holidays per year).\n\n - Relocation assistance to Los Angeles available.\n\n - A real equipment and lab budget.\n\nLocation: Culver City, CA (onsite).\n\nEndeavor Optical Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EON 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."},{"id":"d8765aeb-b534-4cb1-bf30-3242165ed43e","title":"Director of Strategic Enterprise Sales ","department":"Growth","team":"Growth","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Culver City, CA","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-25T02:11:28.798+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Los Angeles"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EON/d8765aeb-b534-4cb1-bf30-3242165ed43e","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EON/d8765aeb-b534-4cb1-bf30-3242165ed43e/application","descriptionHtml":"About EON
EON is building the highest-throughput point-to-point data transport network ever deployed in space. Using free-space laser links in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), we move petabytes of data between any two points on Earth as an alternative to subsea or terrestrial fiber. EON recently closed a $10.75M seed financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in their first-ever co-led space deal. EON is building out of its R&D center in Culver City.
Today, approximately 95% of the global internet travels through a few hundred subsea fiber-optic cables, infrastructure designed in the early 2000s that has gone largely unchanged. Demand for new fiber has never been higher, but laying it is extraordinarily difficult: permits, ocean geology, and geopolitical boundaries make every new cable a years-long, billion-dollar undertaking. That bottleneck is a liability with cables at constant risk of being cut, whether by accident or adversarial action, and no amount of ground-based investment can fully solve it.
The Role
EON is hiring a dedicated commercial hire to build and close EON's early wholesale capacity pipeline. At a high level, you will be directly responsible for selling to key customers and partners. You'll own the full cycle, from account targeting through contract close, working directly with EON's founders and technical team to translate satellite and capacity specs into commercial terms buyers can act on.
Responsibilities
Build and run outbound motion into named accounts across hyperscalers, enterprises, CDNs, NeoClouds, and regional carriers
Develop and iterate on route-specific pricing and packaging
Lead technical/commercial conversations that position satellite lasercom as a resilience layer for existing fiber
Negotiate and close reservation agreements for commercial capacity
Partner with EON's technical team to convert specs (wavelength handoffs and per-city-pair capacity) into commercially compelling terms
Represent EON in front of hyperscaler network procurement teams, sovereign/government buyers, and carrier partners, and at relevant industry events
Feed market and buyer feedback back into pricing, route prioritization, and product positioning
Basic Qualifications
7+ years selling wholesale capacity, subsea cable, dark fiber, spectrum, or carrier-grade network services
Track record closing large, multi-year contracts (not high-velocity/high-volume deals)
Comfortable running a consultative, technical sale with network architects and engineers in the room, not just procurement
Able to translate technical infrastructure specs into business terms for both technical and executive audiences
Preferred Experience
Experience working with:
Hyperscalers (AWS, Microsoft, Google) — network architecture and capacity planning teams evaluating route diversity and resilience for critical infrastructure
NeoClouds & AI infrastructure providers — compute-first buyers looking to unlock bandwidth for AI training and inference workloads
Carriers, CDNs & edge providers — POP- and peering-driven buyers focused on edge continuity and route resilience
Experience selling into AI/GPU infrastructure buyers or NeoClouds
Experience with sovereign, government, or defense communications procurement
Existing relationships with network or capacity planning teams at major hyperscalers
Startup or early-stage experience: building process where none exists, working directly with founders
What this job is really like
We're a seed-stage company building toward first light on a single-route demonstrator. There's no sales team, no CRM built out, and no playbook waiting for you — you'll be writing it. You'll work directly with the founders on pricing, positioning, and which markets to prioritize next, and you'll be in the room translating specs from the optical and space systems teams into terms a hyperscaler's procurement desk can sign off on. If you want a fully-built pipeline and a defined territory, this isn't it. If you want to build the commercial motion for a category that doesn't have an incumbent yet, this is it.
A note on level and background: This role is being hired at the Director level, but we calibrate scope and compensation to experience — if your background is a strong fit but your title history doesn't match, still reach out. We are always looking for exceptional people from many disciplines.
Location: Culver City, CA (hybrid -- travel required for customer meetings)
Endeavor Optical Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EON 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.