Space Software Release Manager — Stock Options & Quality Releases

Impulse Space; Redondo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision & dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Impulse Space in Redondo Beach is seeking a Software Release Manager to own the spacecraft software release process. You will ensure correct builds ship on schedule with required documentation, testing, and customer-ready release notes.

You will drive improvements to CI/CD pipelines and release standards while collaborating with engineering and QA teams. The role emphasizes process, scheduling, and quality governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other technical discipline.
• 3+ years of release management, release engineering, or related technical program management experience.
• Experience owning software release processes for products with multiple hardware platforms and software variants.
• Working knowledge of Git, CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and release versioning.
• Demonstrated experience writing test plans and tracking results.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage release plans aligned with program integration milestones.
• Work with software developers and test teams to track progress and ensure adequate test coverage.
• Manage release artifacts including build packages, release notes, known issues, and documentation.
• Follow, enforce, and improve software development process documentation.
• Define comprehensive test plans for functional, integration, system, and UAT tests.
• Monitor, configure, and manage static analysis, code coverage, and other quality tools.
• Define metrics and dashboards for monitoring software quality and release process.

Skills

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Build automation

Release versioning

Test plans

Python/C/C++

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other technical discipline

Tools

Static analysis tools

Software build tools

SITL/HITL tooling

Release management tooling

Job description

Impulse Space in Redondo Beach is seeking a Software Release Manager to own the spacecraft software release process. You will ensure correct builds ship on schedule with required documentation, testing, and customer-ready release notes.

You will drive improvements to CI/CD pipelines and release standards while collaborating with engineering and QA teams. The role emphasizes process, scheduling, and quality governance.