Own spacecraft and kick-stage launch processing across multiple launch sites and providers. Responsibilities include managing payload integration schedules and requirements, planning launch campaigns, executing system-level testing, coordinating with propulsion, avionics, structures, software, test, and manufacturing teams, and solving technical problems autonomously. The role supports multiple launches annually and requires flexible hours, including nights and weekends.
As a Launch Integration Engineer at Impulse, you will own spacecraft & kick-stage launch processing at various launch sites. Impulse is building an exceptional team, and this position is a growth opportunity open to high performers of any experience level above the basic qualifications.
Responsibilities
- Build, organize, & manage schedules for integrating multiple payloads onto Helios vehicles
- Manage payload requirements and work with Integration to implement & verify completion
- Plan multiple launch campaigns per year across different launch facilities and launch providers
- Execute critical system-level testing, working directly with subsystem level owners
- Provide innovative solutions to problems while operating with a high degree of autonomy
- Work and communicate effectively at a technical level with numerous teams across propulsion, avionics, structures, software, test, and manufacturing
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, materials engineering, or other engineering discipline
- 5+ years of experience integrating, designing, launching, and/or building spacecraft/launch vehicles
- Willingness to work flexible hours, including nights and weekends as required by operations and support occasional travel
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 8+ years of experience integrating, designing, launching, and/or building spacecraft/launch vehicles
- Experience launching spacecraft on multiple different launch vehicles and rideshare missions
- Excellent written and oral communication, especially translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences
- Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere
Additional Information:
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
About
Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers throughout LEO. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.
Impulse Space El Segundo, California, USA Office
El Segundo, CA, United States, 90245
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