Manager, Spacecraft Vehicle Engineering

Impulse Space•Redondo Beach, CA

30d•$175,000 - $205,000•Onsite

About The Position

As the Manager for Vehicle Engineering for Mira at Impulse, you will be responsible for the overall success, delivery, sustainment, and improvement of the Mira vehicle product line. You will serve as the technical expert of the vehicle and manage a team of 4 individuals to start with potential to grow.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science or related field
Past results and execution developing, testing, and flying spacecraft, launch vehicles, or other vehicles with similar rigorous flightworthy requirements
Expert level technical knowledge in any of the following disciplines: primary structures, secondary structures, mechanisms, pressure systems, or other areas related to spacecraft
Strong communication skills both technically and interpersonally to support work across a wide array of groups and departments
Professional experience managing and growing a small team

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in aerospace or mechanical engineering
4+ years of demonstrated experience working in lead roles on spacecraft development
Ownership of the technical development of a spacecraft through its full design cycle: conceptualization, system level trades, design, analysis, test, build, integration, and flight operations
Demonstrated results executing multi-disciplinary problems efficiently in a startup or agile development environment that requires hands-on hardware

Responsibilities

Lead a team of all-star responsible engineers working on the Mira spacecraft including both mechanical and vehicle level system engineering associated work
Be the glue and train your team on how to connect hardware groups together across propulsion, avionics, manufacturing, and integration to deliver successful Mira vehicles on time at a recurring basis
Act as the technical expert on Mira spacecraft primary structures, secondary structures, deployable mechanisms, and payload accommodations
Manage an ever-growing number of Mira missions scaling from 6 per year to 30+ per year
Interface regularly with mission management, mission design, and customers, supporting current missions, onboarding new ones, or performing studies on what Mira could do
Train, guide, and mentor your team to be efficient, hardware-focused, collaborative, and technically rigorous
Shape the long-term product roadmap for Mira both mission by mission and well into the future with major or minor block upgrades that include systemic performance, process, and automation improvements
Direct technical ownership and individual contributor work across the vehicle