As a Mechanisms Engineer at Impulse, you will be responsible for the design, development, and testing of flight-critical mechanisms, actuators, and deployable structures for Impulse’s next-generation transfer and hosting vehicles.

Department: Vehicle Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Redondo Beach
Workplace type: Onsite
Compensation: $100,000 - $165,000 / year
Reporting To: Seth Kovnat, Director of Vehicle Engineering

Responsibilities

Conceptual, detailed design, and ownership of flight mechanisms
Perform analyses to support design including hand calculations, finite element analysis, and kinematic analysis
Test mechanisms and structures on both component and system levels to validate design intent and characterize performance
Source commercial components to support design as required
Update designs and documentation to support continuous improvement
Work with internal manufacturing group and external suppliers to produce designs

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in engineering or science
3+ years of experience in mechanical design
Experience with kinematic mechanical systems
Demonstrated ability in conceptual design, fabrication and testing of hardware
Demonstrated ability to apply dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
Proficiency in CAD software with ability to learn new tools
In order to be successful in this role, you should be someone who is uniquely creative, self-driven, and is able to lead his or her own projects to completion
Demonstrated experience working collaboratively across different teams
Ability to communicate technical challenges, explain rationale and/or resolve concerns

Preferred Skills and Experience

5+ years' of demonstrated experience in space mechanism development (solar array, booms, SADAs, deployables, separation systems, etc)
5+ years' of demonstrated Prior experience with testing mechanisms for development, flight qualification, and flight verification
Prior experience in high performance, cost and mass optimized hardware design
Experience in a space startup or agile development environment
Experience with Siemens NX
Experience with creation of deployable structures models in NASTRAN, ABAQUS, or ANSYS

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.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. 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.

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