Manufacturing Engineer, Spacecraft Avionics

Description

As a Manufacturing Engineer (Mira Avionics) at Impulse, you will work cross-functionally to deliver critical avionics hardware for our Mira and Helios vehicles. In this role, you will provide program-level oversight of avionics production, drive execution across multiple disciplines, and play a key leadership role in ensuring hardware is delivered on schedule and meets the highest standards of quality and reliability.

You will serve as a central point of coordination between engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, test, and program management teams, helping translate program requirements into executable production plans. Your work will directly impact the performance, reliability, and successful delivery of hardware destined for orbit.

Position leveling will be commensurate with experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, resource requirements, and deliverables for avionics manufacturing programs
• Serve as the primary point of contact for flight hardware and ground support equipment (GSE), ensuring clear communication and alignment across teams
• Partner with program management to establish delivery schedules, deconflict resources, manage production flow, and align manufacturing priorities with overall program objectives
• Coordinate engineering, production, supply chain, quality, test, and operations teams to ensure timely execution and delivery of avionics hardware supporting vehicle integration and program milestones
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product quality, manufacturing consistency, and long-term hardware reliability
• Ensure avionics components are built, tested, and delivered to vehicle integration on schedule, proactively addressing constraints that could impact program milestones
• Provide clear project status updates, lead project reviews, communicate risks and mitigation strategies, and maintain alignment with internal and external stakeholders

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors' degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 6+ years of demonstrated development or manufacturing experience with electronic or optical hardware, including both build and test
• Proven experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver technically complex projects
• Strong project management skills

Preferred Skills and Experience

• M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of experience in spacecraft avionics manufacturing
• Experience with setting up and scaling manufacturing lines, including building and testing avionics

Additional Information:

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity.

In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.

Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S.

Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.### About Impulse Space

Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits.

The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers throughout LEO. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.