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Senior Design Reliability Engineer

Impulse· Propulsion
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Redondo Beach$150k - $190kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Design Reliability Engineer responsible for standardizing Impulse’s design process, including design standards, margining, configuration management, and templates within the propulsion domain.

Responsibilities

  • 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 processes
  • 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

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

Skills

Required:Design standards and documentationMarginingDesign release workflowDesign review processDesign-for-reliability

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives in the form of stock options
  • Medical, vision & dental coverage
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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