Mission Integration Engineer (Commercial & Civil)

About the role

Impulse is hiring a Mission Integration Engineer in Redondo Beach to support the technical integration of commercial and civil space customer payloads and mission requirements onto Impulse space vehicles. The role works closely with customer technical teams and internal engineering disciplines, helping establish and track hardware, software and operational interfaces from kickoff through delivery, while assisting in technical problem-solving and maintaining baseline interface documentation.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain technical baseline documentation, Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and compliance matrices for customer missions
• Coordinate across technical focus areas to resolve integration issues
• Work with Responsible Engineers and Mission Managers to evaluate spacecraft capabilities against customer requirements
• Identify technical risks early and propose engineering trade-offs and mitigations
• Support mission verification, environmental test reviews and launch site integration flows
• Keep traceability through action items, meeting records and analysis/test/inspection data in shared company repositories
• Occasionally travel less than 20% of the time to support hardware integration events, test campaigns or launch operations

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field
• 0-2+ years of professional or hands-on academic/internship experience in systems engineering, mission integration or complex technical projects
• Foundational understanding of aerospace subsystem interfaces and familiarity with tracking technical requirements against deliverables
• Exposure to technical documentation, ICDs or verification matrices
• Preferred: Master's degree, direct technical point of contact experience with external partners, and familiarity with commercial space markets, launch service providers or agency processes
• U.S. person or export-license eligible under ITAR and EAR; strong organizational skills and documentation track record preferred

What we offer

• Pay of $100,000 - $205,000 per year, depending on role, level, location and skills
• Possible long-term incentives such as stock options for full-time hires
• Medical, vision and dental coverage and a 401(k) retirement plan