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Impulse is seeking a Senior Flight Reliability Engineer to lead mission assurance and flight readiness efforts across multiple aerospace programs. In this role, you will be responsible for evaluating mission and vehicle risks throughout development, integration, test, and flight operations, driving mitigation strategies across multidisciplinary engineering teams. You will develop and maintain scalable processes for risk identification, disposition, and closure, and lead vehicle-level readiness reviews for major program milestones including test campaigns, launch operations, and flight readiness activities.
Key responsibilities include owning root cause investigations for significant flight and ground-test anomalies, driving corrective and preventive actions to closure. You will advance internal mission assurance processes including change management, configuration control, impact assessment, and lessons learned capture. This role requires close partnership with design, manufacturing, software, avionics, propulsion, guidance/navigation/control (GNC), and operations teams to improve mission reliability across the full vehicle lifecycle.
You will support development of early certification and compliance approaches for government and commercial customers across multiple programs, and serve as a technical representative with customers, government stakeholders, and external partners during reviews, investigations, and mission operations. A key aspect of this role is championing a culture of accountability, rigor, and continuous improvement throughout the organization.
Required qualifications include 3+ years of experience in aerospace, defense, launch vehicles, spacecraft, aviation, or other highly complex technical systems. You must have strong analytical, organizational, communication, and decision-making skills, with demonstrated experience driving structured problem solving and root cause investigations. A Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field is required. U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD TS/SCI or TS/SAP security clearance are mandatory.
