Senior Design Reliability Engineer

As a Senior Design Reliability Engineer at Impulse, you will own the standardization and implementation of Impulse's design process. You will lead cross-functional efforts on setting design standards, margining approach, configuration management, and templates., * Define and document design standards and best practices for structures, propulsion, avionics, composites, mechanisms, and more

• Define and document our margining approach
• Own the design release workflow processes, from CAD to PLM to MRP and ERP
• Define the design review process, templates, and milestones
• Create and manage tools to compile design-informing data and information, traceability of changes, and key decision points
• Provide design-for-reliability guidance during design reviews and build planning
• Develop and implement robust design configuration management processes
• Use build and flight data to influence requirements, assumptions, and decisions
• Act as a specification custodian for our design, margining, configuration, and release processe
• Ensure product integrity by holding the line on quality standards, extreme-owning design containments, and driving corrective actions to completion
• Liaise with build reliability, quality, and flight reliability to solve problems together

Do you have experience in Quality control problem-solving?, * Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field

• 5+ years of experience in hardware design and analysis for aerospace, automotive, or high-reliability systems
• Demonstrated experience supporting design-for-manufacturing of builds, integration, or test of primary structures and/or complex mechanical or electromechanical systems
• Strong problem-solving skills with demonstrated root cause analysis experience
• Strong theoretical and working knowledge of GD&T, * 8+ years of demonstrated design reliability experience with spacecraft, launch vehicles, aviation, robotics, or hardware
• Familiarity with AS9100, ISO 9001, or similar quality systems (practical application preferred over documentation focus)
• Demonstrated experience with reliability engineering concepts (FMEA, reliability growth, Weibull analysis)
• Demonstrated background working closely with cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated experience supporting rapid development or prototype-to-production transitions

Additional Requirements:

• Flexible schedule and willing to travel as needed

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.

Pulled from the full job description

• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Stock options

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.