job posting · ashby
E.ON SE: Electrical Engineer - All Levels
Observed on the employer’s careers system, last checked 2026-09-04.
- Employer
- E.ON SE
- Location
- Culver City, CA
- Category
- Lasercom
- Posted
- 2026-08-04
- Careers system
- ashby
- Observed
- 2026-09-04
Role description
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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…
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