Spacecraft CI/CD & HITL Automation Engineer

Frontdoor Defense; Redondo Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Impulse Space is seeking a Software Infrastructure Engineer in Redondo Beach, CA to design and operate the infrastructure, tooling, and workflows used to build, release, deploy, and test spacecraft software and HITL environments.

You will collaborate with Software and GNC engineers to create reliable, automated deployment and test systems for multiple spacecraft and HITL platforms, ensuring scalable pipelines, robust monitoring, and secure configurations across launch sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Math, Physics, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 2+ years of demonstrated experience in Software Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering
• Demonstrated experience with Git and CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI/CD, Github Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience in at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Bash, or equivalent) used to build automation and developer tooling.
• Demonstrated experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Podman, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience with Linux systems, network configuration, and common networking protocols.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Software and GNC teams to develop, operate, and continuously improve automated build, integration, test, and deployment pipelines.
• Design, develop, and maintain systems for deploying binaries and other software artifacts to spacecraft hardware used for flight and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing.
• Develop reliable, automated deployment workflows that support software releases and test operations at launch and test sites.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and data-analysis capabilities supporting continuous integration, release readiness, and test operations.
• Develop and maintain containerized environments and infrastructure-as-code automation to provision, configure, and operate CI, HITL, and test-site infrastructure.

Skills

Git

CI/CD tooling

Python scripting

Docker

Linux

Networking basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Math, Physics, Engineering, or a related technical field

Tools

Docker

Podman

CMake

Make

Bazel

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Impulse Space is seeking a Software Infrastructure Engineer in Redondo Beach, CA to design and operate the infrastructure, tooling, and workflows used to build, release, deploy, and test spacecraft software and HITL environments.

You will collaborate with Software and GNC engineers to create reliable, automated deployment and test systems for multiple spacecraft and HITL platforms, ensuring scalable pipelines, robust monitoring, and secure configurations across launch sites.