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Manage competitive government proposal development from opportunity evaluation through submission. Write and edit technical proposals, interpret customer requirements, coordinate inputs from Engineering, Finance, Legal, Mission Management, and Business Development, maintain schedules and proposal repositories, ensure compliance with submission rules, and improve proposal processes. The role also supports technical white papers, graphics, and broader company writing and communications.

Create and extend Impulse’s visual brand across digital, print, presentations, campaigns, physical assets, merchandise, and environmental graphics. Translate complex aerospace and technical information into polished visual communications, maintain templates and asset libraries, prepare production-ready files, and manage design quality through final delivery. Collaborate with teams across the company while improving creative workflows and supporting multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Leads Impulse Space’s non-destructive testing program for aerospace hardware, managing NDT personnel, technical strategy, inspection methods, procedures, equipment, supplier oversight, training, and compliance. Partners with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and materials teams to define inspection requirements and disposition nonconformances. Builds internal capabilities, manages outsourced providers, improves process repeatability, and supports budgets, facilities, and long-term capability planning for flight and development hardware.

Lead design, analysis, testing, and implementation of in-house liquid propulsion components and subsystems. Plan and execute tests (engine hotfire, valve functional), perform thermal-fluids and materials trades, resolve technical issues, and coordinate across engineering, manufacturing, and operations to deliver flight hardware.

Lead build reliability for machined spacecraft hardware by preventing and diagnosing defects, developing inspection criteria, guiding design-for-reliability, performing development testing, optimizing ERP/MRP traceability, training technicians, and driving corrective actions to ensure hardware and mission reliability.

Owns industrial CT inspection for aerospace flight hardware, including technique development, validation, acceptance criteria, data interpretation, procedures, equipment commissioning, supplier oversight, and compliance. Partners with design, manufacturing, and quality teams to improve inspectability and defect detection. Supports failure investigations, nonconformance dispositions, CT capability development, and flight hardware record traceability. Trains and mentors NDT personnel and serves as the technical authority for CT operations.

Manage supplier quality and component performance across the product lifecycle. Responsibilities include qualifying parts, overseeing vendor manufacturing, resolving non-conformances, managing SDR, MRB, RTV, and CAPA processes, conducting root cause analysis, supporting containment actions, and improving supplier quality systems. The role collaborates with Engineering, Procurement, Production, and suppliers, provides onsite technical support, and requires up to 25% travel.

Leads spacecraft system architecture, technical direction, engineering trade studies, risk management, readiness reviews, certification, anomaly resolution, and mission success across the full product lifecycle. Partners with engineering, manufacturing, testing, mission operations, executives, customers, government stakeholders, launch providers, and external partners to deliver reliable spacecraft systems.

Supports spacecraft development from initial design through production ramp-up. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, system-level studies, risk mitigation, engineering process development, customer documentation, and system-level test planning and execution. The role collaborates with subsystem, integration, test, and program teams to resolve technical issues and improve spacecraft reliability, efficiency, and production scalability.

Design and release complex multilayer PCBs for space vehicles, including component placement, routing, stack-up design, signal and power integrity, EMI/EMC, fabrication documentation, DRC/LVS, and DFM reviews. Collaborate with electrical, RF, mechanical, test, firmware, manufacturing, and fabrication teams. Maintain PCB libraries, footprints, design standards, revision control, and documentation while ensuring IPC compliance and manufacturability.