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As Senior Design Reliability Engineer at Impulse, you will own the standardization and implementation of the company's design process, leading cross-functional efforts to establish design standards, margining approaches, configuration management, and templates across all engineering disciplines.
Key responsibilities include:
• Define and document design standards and best practices for structures, propulsion, avionics, composites, mechanisms, and related systems
• Establish and document the margining approach for design analysis and validation
• Own the design release workflow processes, integrating CAD, PLM, MRP, and ERP systems
• Define design review processes, templates, and milestone criteria
• Create and manage tools for compiling design-informing data, tracking changes, and documenting key decision points
• Provide design-for-reliability guidance during design reviews and build planning phases
• Develop and implement robust design configuration management processes
• Leverage build and flight data to inform requirements, assumptions, and engineering decisions
• Serve as specification custodian for design, margining, configuration, and release processes
• Ensure product integrity by maintaining quality standards, owning design containments, and driving corrective actions to completion
• Collaborate with build reliability, quality, and flight reliability teams to solve complex problems
Required qualifications:
• 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 (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing)
