Mission Integration Engineer (Commercial & Civil)

Impulse Space; Redondo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision & dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Long-term incentives

Job summary

Impulse Space in Redondo Beach seeks a Mission Integration Engineer to support technical integration of payloads and mission requirements onto Impulse space vehicles. You will work with customer technical teams and internal engineering to establish and track interfaces from kickoff through delivery.

The role involves maintaining documentation, coordinating across disciplines, identifying risks, and supporting verification and launch readiness. Occasional travel is expected (up to 20%).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field is required.
• 0–2+ years in systems engineering, mission integration, or related projects.
• Experience maintaining ICDs, interfaces, and verification matrices.
• Exposure to documenting technical processes and interface definitions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain technical baseline documentation and ICDs for customer missions.
• Coordinate across technical focus areas to resolve integration issues.
• Evaluate spacecraft capabilities against customer requirements with REs and Mission Managers.
• Identify technical risks early and propose mitigations.
• Support mission verification, environmental test reviews, and launch site integration flows.
• Maintain traceability with action items, records, and data in repositories.
• Travel to hardware integration events or launch operations (<= 20%).

Skills

Systems engineering

Mission integration

Technical documentation

Requirements tracking

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Master’s degree in engineering

Job description

Department: Mission Management

Location: Redondo Beach

Compensation: $100,000 - $205,000 / year

Description

As a Mission Integration Engineer at Impulse, you will support the technical integration of commercial and civil space customer payloads and mission requirements onto Impulse space vehicles. In this role, you will work closely with customer technical teams and internal engineering disciplines—helping establish and track hardware, software, and operational interfaces from kickoff through delivery. You will assist in technical problem-solving, help maintain baseline interface documentation, and support mission integration readiness across dynamic flight programs.

Responsibilities

• Assist in maintaining technical baseline documentation, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and compliance matrices for customer missions
• Support multi-disciplinary coordination across different technical focus areas to resolve integration issues
• Partner with Responsible Engineers (REs) and Mission Managers to evaluate evolving spacecraft capabilities against customer requirements
• Help identify technical risks early in the mission lifecycle and formulate engineering trade-offs and mitigations
• Support mission verification, environmental test reviews, and launch site integration flows
• Maintain traceability through clear action item tracking, meeting records, and analysis/test/inspection data in shared company repositories
• Occasionally travel to support hardware integration events, test campaigns, or launch operations (less than 20% travel)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field
• 0–2+ years of professional or hands‑on academic/internship experience in systems engineering, mission integration, or complex technical project execution
• Foundational understanding of core aerospace subsystem interfaces and familiarity with tracking technical requirements against deliverables
• Exposure to maintaining technical documentation, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), or verification matrices

Preferred Skills And Experience

• Master’s degree in an engineering discipline
• Experience working directly as a technical point of contact with external partners or customers in a fast‑paced environment
• Familiarity with commercial space markets, launch service providers, civil space mission lifecycles, or institutional agency processes
• Strong organizational skills with a track record of documenting technical processes, interface definitions, and verification logic

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.