Spacecraft Development Engineer

Impulse Space•Redondo Beach, CA
•$100,000 - $160,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a Spacecraft Development Engineer at Impulse, you will work on diverse projects to support our programs from development phase through production ramp-up. You will work closely with subsystems engineers, integration and test personnel, and program management to deliver on customer commitments and produce world class space vehicles.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science
  • Hands-on experience working with mechanical, fluids, or electrical systems
  • Demonstrated experience with requirements analysis and flow-down
  • Demonstrated leadership and communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability of taking project ownership and working well in a small team
  • U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

Nice To Haves

  • Active TS/SCI clearance
  • Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering or other relevant engineering or science discipline
  • Direct experience with spacecraft programs and missions, with exposure to a full life cycle from concept to in-orbit operations
  • Prior experience in development and/or testing
  • Familiarity with analysis programming such as MATLAB, Excel, etc.
  • Experience with CAD to design hardware
  • Experience in a startup or agile development environment

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate across disciplines to creatively shape requirements and verification approaches
  • Support customer deliverables and generate program documentation
  • Perform various system level analyses in support of mission design, system optimization, and proposal efforts
  • Develop systems engineering processes that improve reliability, efficiency, and performance
  • Formulate risk mitigation strategies and drive their implementation
  • Scale up engineering processes to support a high spacecraft production rate
  • Support system-level test preparation, planning, and execution
  • Resolve technical issues with innovative and resourceful solutions

Benefits

  • long-term incentives, in the form of stock options
  • medical coverage
  • vision coverage
  • dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
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