💼 Full-Time Position

Senior Mechanical Engineer (Kick Stage)

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Impulse Space
📍 Redondo Beach, California, United States
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Location
Redondo Beach, United States
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Posted
June 12, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Description

As a Mechanical Engineer at Impulse for our Vehicle Engineering Team, you will own all aspects of the design, analysis, build, test and integration of flight hardware – working with cross-functional engineering teams to accomplish this. This means cradle-to-grave ownership of pressurized and/or unpressurized structures in support of Impulse’s collection of next generation advanced propulsion space vehicles.



Responsibilities


  • Design, analyze, build, test, and document innovative structures; example systems include primary structure weldments, tank internal fluid/structural devices, payload attachment fittings, and stage propulsion/avionics integration hardware 

  • Steer system definition, layout, requirements, and verification

  • Support first article build through the ramp to production in collaboration with the manufacturing team, rolling in DFM and reliability improvements

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