Senior Mission Design Engineer

Impulse Space•Redondo Beach, CA

47d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Mission Design Engineer at Impulse Space, your core responsibility will be to design and optimize in-space servicing missions which meet or exceed the requirements of potential customers. This role is part of the Product Management team but will require working closely with multiple teams including the Business Development and Engineering teams. This role will support the Business Development team in proposal development and be responsible for ensuring the mission designs and solutions proposed are technically sound. Some travel to interface directly with customers may be required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field
4+ years of experience working in a technical role
Ability to communicate technical material clearly and professionally
Working knowledge of orbital mechanics and spacecraft operations
Functional knowledge of spacecraft systems design and payload accommodations
Proficient in at least one programming language with a preference for Python

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in a technical degree area
Experience in one or more customer-facing roles
Experience assembling spacecraft, overseeing the assembly of spacecraft, or integrating payloads onto spacecraft
Experience operating spacecraft on orbit
General familiarity with the space industry
Demonstrated ability to operate in a startup environment
Experience operating CAD software
Experience with creating physics simulations or using orbital simulation software

Responsibilities

Create mission designs which efficiently accomplish the stated goals of potential customers
Maintain familiarity with the technical performance capabilities of Impulse’s space vehicles
Develop tools to efficiently analyze, interpret, and present mission design results
Assist in the effort of incorporating mission design technical details into written proposals
Meet with customers to collect requirements and hear feedback regarding proposed mission designs
Analyze proposed mission designs for effectiveness and identify areas of improvement
Assist the Engineering team in the effort to continuously improve the spacecraft simulation and trajectory optimization software suite
Work closely with the Business Development team to understand the needs of each customer and agree on the best approach for each proposal opportunity
Examples of technical effort the mission design process may include: high-level CONOPs creation, maneuver design and trajectory optimization, requirements compliance verification, CAD fit checks, propellant budgeting, power budgeting, link budgeting, etc.