Software Infrastructure & Release Engineer
Impulse Space
Other Engineering
Posted on Nov 4, 2025
As a Software Infrastructure and Release Engineer, your core responsibility will be to design, implement, and maintain our spacecraft flight software and ground software deployment environments. You will work closely with software and GNC engineers to plan out and implement an automated deployment and test system for a variety of spacecrafts and test platforms.
- Department
- Autonomous Systems
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Redondo Beach
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Compensation
- $125,000 - $175,000 / year
Responsibilities
- Develop a system to deploy binaries and other software artifacts onto spacecraft hardware for Flight and Hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing.
- Work closely with the Software and GNC teams to develop and improve our test and deployment pipelines.
- Troubleshoot and debug issues related to HITL systems, including hardware, software, and test setup.
- Utilize test automation tools and frameworks to streamline test execution, data collection, and result analysis.
- Develop automated processes to support deployment to our launch and test sites.
- Bring up monitoring and data analysis in support of a continuous integration and release system.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering, or related degrees.
- 2+ years of experience with Linux operating systems.
- Expertise in CI/CD tools (e.g. Gitlab, Jenkins, etc).
- Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, etc).
- Experience in Bash, Python, and/or other scripting languages.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the git version control system and gitflow.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience with build systems (e.g. Make, CMake, Bazel, etc).
- Demonstrated experience in deploying software artifacts to deliverable hardware.
- Knowledge of networking configurations and underlying protocols.
- Experience integrating complex systems that facilitate continuous build, integration, test, and deployment.
- Experience with deploying containers to and utilizing compute on cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with cross-platform development, source development kits, and deployment pipelines.
- Experience with configuration management of builds for multiple systems off of a shared code base.
- Knowledge of logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities using tools (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, etc).
- Excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
- Organization capability with ability to handle competing priorities.
- Strong interpersonal skills, communication (oral and written), and presentation skills.
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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