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Thermal Engineer - Payload & Optical Terminal

EON is hiring for Thermal Engineer - Payload & Optical Terminal in Culver City, CA. Mid level. First seen October 21, 2026, posted 2 times; open as of November 10, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
EON
Where
Culver City, CA
Level
Mid
First seen
October 21, 2026
Postings
2
Listed via
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What the posting says

THE ROLE 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…

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