Senior Mission Integration Engineer

Company: impulsespace
Location: Redondo Beach, California
Type: onsite
Posted: Oct 3, 2026
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Impulse Space, a spacecraft manufacturing company, is hiring a Senior Mission Integration Engineer in Redondo Beach, California. The role focuses on executing technical integration of customer payloads and maintaining Interface Control Documents (ICDs) across hardware, software, and operational interfaces. Candidates require a Bachelor's degree in a technical field and 5+ years of experience in systems engineering or mission integration, with a Master's degree and active security clearance preferred. Benefits include stock options, medical coverage, and a 401(k) plan, with less than 20% travel required.

As a Senior Mission Integration Engineer at Impulse, you will be responsible for executing the technical integration of customer payloads and mission requirements onto Impulse space vehicles. In this role, you will bridge customer technical teams and internal engineering disciplines – establishing hardware, software, and operational interfaces from kickoff through delivery. You will lead technical problem-solving, maintain baseline interface documentation, and ensure mission integration readiness across complex missions.
  • Own and maintain technical baseline documentation, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and compliance matrices for customer missions
  • Lead multi-disciplinary coordination across different technical focus areas to resolve integration issues
  • Partner with Responsible Engineers (REs) and Mission Managers to evaluate evolving spacecraft capabilities against customer requirements
  • Proactively identify technical risks early in the mission lifecycle and formulate engineering trade-offs and mitigations
  • Support mission verification, environmental test reviews, and launch site integration flows
  • Maintain traceability through clear action item tracking, meeting records, and analysis/test/inspection data in shared company repositories
  • Occasionally travel to support hardware integration events, test campaigns, or launch operations (less than 20% travel)

  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical field
  • 5+ years of professional experience in systems engineering, mission integration, or complex technical project execution
  • Strong understanding of core aerospace subsystem interfaces and familiarity with tracking contract requirements against technical deliverables
  • Experience maintaining technical documentation, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), or verification matrices

  • Master’s degree in an engineering discipline
  • Active security clearance or willingness to obtain
  • Experience working directly as a technical point of contact with external partners or customers in a fast-paced environment
  • Familiarity with civil space or national security processes and systems
  • Strong organizational skills with a track record of documenting technical processes, interface definitions, and verification logic


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.
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About the Company

Name: impulsespace
Location: Not specified
Website: https://www.impulsespace.com

Our mission is to accelerate humanity's future in space through efficient transportation anywhere; GEO, the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Impulse is the way to get your payload anywhere in space. Space is more accessible than ever, but efficiently moving payloads & satellites still remains a challenge. We alleviate this by building nimble, economical and powerful capabilities to access any orbit. At Impulse, we hire individuals with a record of demonstrated excellence, those who are always curious, and those fully committed to the mission. We are a team of innovators, willing to challenge the status quo and persevere through obstacles to achieve exceptional results. From engineers who helped build Falcon 1, to those who built the latest college FSAE vehicles (and everything in between); we pride ourselves on having a diverse skillset of technical depth. To achieve success for our customers - we are building Helios, a high-energy kick stage that will bring large payloads & satellites from LEO to GEO. We are also building Mira, a hosting and orbital transfer vehicle that is optimized to make the trip to and operate in LED & GEO. Space is hard, and we're here to make it easier for our customers. You will help build the tools and capability to do just that.

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