Space Mission Integration Engineer: Payload Interfaces

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

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%).