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As a Senior Build Reliability Engineer (Propulsion) at Impulse, you will own the connection between design requirements, manufacturing execution, and flight performance for propulsion hardware. Working hands-on with technicians, manufacturing engineers, and supporting teams, you will prevent defects before they occur, rapidly diagnose failures, and continuously improve hardware reliability across spacecraft builds.
Key responsibilities include identifying, investigating, and eliminating build defects and failures through root cause analysis and corrective actions. You will develop inspection requirements, acceptance criteria, and quality control processes aligned with hardware and mission reliability requirements, and assist in closeout inspections. You will perform development testing to guide design decisions and characterize hardware performance, and provide design-for-reliability guidance during design reviews and build planning.
Additional duties involve optimizing MRP/ERP system modules for improved hardware trace and data collection, balancing inspection and test with lean principles to ensure verifications are comprehensive yet streamlined. You will develop and implement build quality metrics to heighten awareness and improve the quality landscape over time. You will act as a specification custodian for inspection plans, storage and handling procedures, and process control plans. You will own training and certification of elevated sign-off privileges for manufacturing technicians, interface with supply chain to improve vendor hardware quality, and ensure hardware integrity by holding the line on quality standards and driving corrective actions to completion.
Required qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field, plus 5+ years of experience in hardware manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, or high-reliability systems. You must have demonstrated experience supporting production builds, integration, or test of primary structures and/or complex mechanical or electromechanical systems, strong problem-solving skills with demonstrated root cause analysis experience, and strong theoretical and working knowledge of GD&T.
