Welding Engineer - Spacecraft Welds & Process Innovation

Impulse Space; Redondo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision & dental

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Impulse Space in Redondo Beach is seeking a Weld Engineer to help develop, qualify and optimize welding designs and processes across laser beam, TIG, friction stir, and orbital welding for main structural tanks and engine assemblies.

You will partner with design and manufacturing engineers to enforce standardized welding practices, drive process improvements, support production, and advance state‑of‑the‑art NDE techniques.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or related field.
• 2+ years of hands-on fabrication, manufacturing, or testing experience of welded assemblies.

Responsibilities

• Develop, optimize, and qualify weld processes for laser beam, friction stir, TIG, orbital welding.
• Collaborate with design, tooling, automation, and development engineers to improve welded designs for manufacturing.
• Set up welding qualification test campaigns and interpret mechanical testing and NDE results.
• Support production operations on full-scale welded assemblies in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Welding design

Robotic welding

NDE interpretation

Root cause analysis

Process optimization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Master’s degree in welding engineering

Tools

Robot programming

Optical/metallography analysis

SEM fractography

Job description

Impulse Space in Redondo Beach is seeking a Weld Engineer to help develop, qualify and optimize welding designs and processes across laser beam, TIG, friction stir, and orbital welding for main structural tanks and engine assemblies.

You will partner with design and manufacturing engineers to enforce standardized welding practices, drive process improvements, support production, and advance state‑of‑the‑art NDE techniques.