Director, Quality Engineering
Impulse Space
Quality Assurance, Software Engineering
USD 185k-225k / year + Equity
Posted on Sep 17, 2025
As the Head of Quality Engineering at Impulse, you will be responsible for establishing our quality standards for all flight hardware. Working with propulsion, vehicle, avionics teams (and more) to ensure timely, and high quality built parts. Develop, maintain and continuously improve Impulse's quality system.
- Department
- Manufacturing
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Redondo Beach
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Compensation
- $185,000 - $225,000 / year
- Reporting To
- Paul Seebacher, VP of Manufacturing
Responsibilities
- Establish quality methodology for tracking quality issues throughout the manufacturing process
- Build, develop & maintain systems to address quality problems that improve reliability and speed production
- Lead cross functional teams to deliver quality improvement projects
- Assist the production and supply chain teams with hardware non-conformance tracking and ensuring all non-conformances are resolved quickly
- Develop manufacturing quality standards and inspection procedures
- Identify, source and set up quality inspection equipment and train operators on best practices and processes
- Build out Impulse Quality Plan and documentation that build towards certification against AS9100
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
- 8+ years in a fast paced manufacturing, quality, build reliability and/or design engineering role
- Demonstrated experience building or optimizing a quality management system
- A hands on approach to setting up quality systems and solving quality problems
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 10+ years in a quality engineering leadership role working on launch vehicles, spacecraft or satellites
- Demonstrated experience working with, or implementing AS9100 standards
- Demonstrated technical writing skills
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with engineering, production teams and all involved teams
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.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
Application Received
Stage 2:
Resume Review
Stage 3:
Intro Phone Interview
Stage 4:
Technical Phone Interview(s)
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