Senior Mission Integration Engineer

Impulsespace; Redondo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Impulse Space seeks a Senior Mission Integration Engineer to manage the technical integration of customer payloads and mission requirements on Impulse Space vehicles. You will bridge customer teams and internal engineering, establishing interfaces from kickoff to delivery.

You will lead problem-solving, maintain ICDs, and ensure readiness across complex missions while working with engineering and program teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in systems engineering, mission integration, or complex technical project execution.
• Strong understanding of aerospace subsystem interfaces and tracking contract requirements against technical deliverables.
• Experience maintaining technical documentation, ICDs, or verification matrices.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain ICDs, interface docs, and compliance matrices for customer missions.
• Lead cross-disciplinary coordination to resolve integration issues.
• Assess spacecraft capabilities against customer requirements with engineers and managers.
• Identify technical risks early and propose trade-offs and 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 project execution

External partner liaison

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

ICDs

Job description

Senior Mission Integration Engineer

Department: Mission Management

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Redondo Beach

Compensation: $140,000 - $180,000 / year

Description

As a Senior Mission Integration Engineer at Impulse, you will be responsible for executing the technical integration of customer payloads and mission requirements onto Impulse space vehicles. In this role, you will bridge customer technical teams and internal engineering disciplines – establishing hardware, software, and operational interfaces from kickoff through delivery. You will lead technical problem-solving, maintain baseline interface documentation, and ensure mission integration readiness across complex missions.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain technical baseline documentation, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and compliance matrices for customer missions
• Lead 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
• Proactively 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
• 5+ years of professional experience in systems engineering, mission integration, or complex technical project execution
• Strong understanding of core aerospace subsystem interfaces and familiarity with tracking contract requirements against technical deliverables
• Experience maintaining technical documentation, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), or verification matrices

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Master's degree in an engineering discipline
• Active security clearance or willingness to obtainExperience working directly as a technical point of contact with external partners or customers in a fast-paced environment
• Familiarity with civil space or national security processes and systems
• 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, 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.