Manager of IT Engineering & Infrastructure (AI&T)

Impulse Space; Redondo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Equity ownership

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Impulse Space in California seeks a Manager, IT Engineering & Infrastructure (AI&T) to lead the design, implementation, and operation of infrastructure platforms that support integration, test, and engineering environments.

You will oversee labs, test networks, compute platforms, and related services, guiding a team of engineers and partnering with AI&T and engineering teams to ensure scalable, secure, and time-sensitive operations for mission readiness.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or related domains.
• Experience designing and operating infrastructure in lab, test, or engineering environments.
• 2+ years of leadership or team management experience.
• Strong background in networking, systems, and platform engineering.
• Proven ability to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure solutions.
• Experience with deterministic or time-sensitive systems.
• Experience operating in regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Aerospace, manufacturing, or test environment experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute infrastructure strategy for integration, test, and engineering environments.
• Oversee architecture and lifecycle management for networks, compute, storage, cloud, and lab infrastructure.
• Lead automation, infrastructure-as-code, and platform engineering initiatives.
• Establish monitoring, observability, incident response, and root cause analysis practices to ensure operational excellence.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, zero-trust architecture, regulatory requirements, and secure engineering data management while collaborating with cross-functional teams and vendors.
• Onsite leadership supporting lab and operational environments.
• Accountability for infrastructure readiness during test campaigns.

Skills

Leadership

Infrastructure engineering

Networking

Platform engineering

Automation / IaC

Monitoring / Observability

Incident response

Security / zero-trust

Cross-functional collaboration

Team management

Tools

Infrastructure-as-code

Cloud platforms

Job description

• The Manager, IT Engineering & Infrastructure (AI&T) at Impulse is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and operation of infrastructure platforms supporting integration, test, and engineering environments
• This role owns the technical backbone of AI&T systems, including lab infrastructure, test networks, compute platforms, and supporting services required for reliable and repeatable test operations
• The Manager leads a team of engineers and partners closely with AI&T and engineering organizations to ensure infrastructure supports system integration, validation, and mission readiness
• This role reports into the IT organization with functional alignment to the AI&T (Assembly, Integration, and Test) team, ensuring infrastructure strategy and execution directly support integration and test objectives
• Define and execute infrastructure strategy for integration, test, and engineering environments
• Oversee architecture and lifecycle management for networks, compute, storage, cloud, and lab infrastructure
• Ensure high availability, scalability, reliability, and time-synchronized operations across test systems
• Lead and develop systems and network engineering teams while establishing technical standards and best practices
• Drive technical decision-making aligned with long-term operational, scalability, and reliability goals
• Manage infrastructure supporting test facilities, lab environments, structured cabling, and real-time data systems
• Coordinate test stand deployments, facility upgrades, and infrastructure readiness for integration and test activities
• Lead automation, infrastructure-as-code, and platform engineering initiatives to improve deployment consistency and operational efficiency
• Establish monitoring, observability, incident response, and root cause analysis practices to ensure operational excellence
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, zero-trust architecture, regulatory requirements, and secure engineering data management while collaborating with cross-functional teams and vendors
• Onsite leadership supporting lab and operational environments
• Accountability for infrastructure readiness during test campaigns
• Participation in critical incident response and major operational events

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision: Enjoy the best medical, dental and optical coverage money can buy. We’ve got you and your family covered for all eventualities
• Company Ownership: You’ll be contributing to Impulse’s success, so you deserve to share in it. All full-time employees receive a meaningful equity allocation
• Flexible PTO Policy: We believe in work-life harmony more so than “balance”. When you are happy & fulfilled outside of work, you will be more productive when you’re in it. We offer generous PTO accrual to our full-time employees

Experience leading technical teams supporting complex infrastructure environments8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or related domainsExperience designing and operating infrastructure in lab, test, or engineering environments2+ years of leadership or team management experienceStrong background in networking, systems, and platform engineeringProven ability to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure solutionsStrong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills4+ years experience leading technical teams supporting complex infrastructure environmentsAerospace, manufacturing, or test environment experienceExperience with deterministic or time-sensitive systemsExperience operating in regulated or compliance-driven environmentsExperience driving infrastructure automation and platform engineering initiatives