Space RF Software & GPS/FPGA Manager

Impulsespace; Redondo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 205,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision & dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Impulse Space is seeking an RF Software Manager in Redondo Beach to lead the team responsible for RF communication and GPS receiver software and FPGA firmware powering spacecraft missions from low Earth orbit to deep space. You will guide architecture, development, verification, and delivery, while ensuring flight-critical reliability and performance.

You will manage embedded software, FPGA, and simulation engineers and collaborate across avionics, flight software, ground software, and GNC teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 7+ years of demonstrated experience in developing software for wireless systems in critical applications.
• 2+ years of demonstrated technical leadership, team leadership, or engineering management experience.
• Demonstrated experience developing embedded software in C++.
• Strong understanding of RF communication systems, including modulation, demodulation, signal processing, calibration, and RF system control.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow a team of engineers responsible for spacecraft communication and GPS receiver systems.
• Own the architecture, development, integration, verification, and delivery of RF communication and GPS receiver software, simulation, and FPGA logic.
• Drive development and testing of interfaces between RF hardware, GPS receivers, flight computers, spacecraft flight software, and ground systems.
• Establish software development, FPGA development, testing, code review, documentation, and release practices appropriate for flight-critical RF and navigation systems.
• Direct and participate in design, code, and FPGA logic reviews, ensuring implementations are maintainable, testable, reliable, and ready for flight.
• Partner with RF and avionics hardware teams during board bring-up, integration, troubleshooting, and qualification.
• Develop team priorities, technical roadmaps, schedules, and staffing plans in coordination with program and engineering leadership.
• Recruit, interview, and onboard engineers as the RF software organization grows.
• Identify technical and programmatic risks early and drive them to resolution.
• Support spacecraft integration, environmental testing, ground-station testing, launch, commissioning, and mission operations.

Skills

Embedded software

C++ programming

Team leadership

RF systems understanding

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering or CS

Tools

Xilinx UltraScale+

Job description

Impulse Space is seeking an RF Software Manager in Redondo Beach to lead the team responsible for RF communication and GPS receiver software and FPGA firmware powering spacecraft missions from low Earth orbit to deep space. You will guide architecture, development, verification, and delivery, while ensuring flight-critical reliability and performance.

You will manage embedded software, FPGA, and simulation engineers and collaborate across avionics, flight software, ground software, and GNC teams