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Manager, Spacecraft Vehicle Engineering

Impulse· Vehicle Engineering
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Redondo Beach$175k - $205kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Head the Mira vehicle product line, leading a team of engineers to deliver, sustain, and improve Mira spacecraft, and shape the long-term product roadmap.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of all-star responsible engineers working on the Mira spacecraft including both mechanical and vehicle level system engineering associated work
  • Be the glue and train your team on how to connect hardware groups together across propulsion, avionics, manufacturing, and integration to deliver successful Mira vehicles on time at a recurring basis
  • Act as the technical expert on Mira spacecraft primary structures, secondary structures, deployable mechanisms, and payload accommodations
  • Manage an ever-growing number of Mira missions scaling from 6 per year to 30+ per year
  • Interface regularly with mission management, mission design, and customers, supporting current missions, onboarding new ones, or performing studies on what Mira could do
  • Train, guide, and mentor your team to be efficient, hardware-focused, collaborative, and technically rigorous
  • Shape the long-term product roadmap for Mira both mission by mission and well into the future with major or minor block upgrades that include systemic performance, process, and automation improvements
  • Direct technical ownership and individual contributor work across the vehicle

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science or related field
  • Past results and execution developing, testing, and flying spacecraft, launch vehicles, or other vehicles with similar rigorous flightworthy requirements
  • Expert level technical knowledge in any of the following disciplines: primary structures, secondary structures, mechanisms, pressure systems, or other areas related to spacecraft
  • Strong communication skills both technically and interpersonally to support work across a wide array of groups and departments
  • Professional experience managing and growing a small team

Skills

Required:Leadership and team managementSystem engineering (spacecraft)Primary structuresSecondary structuresCommunications with stakeholders
Nice to have:Deployable mechanismsPropulsion systems

Benefits

  • In addition to base salary, long-term incentives in the form of stock options
  • medical, vision & dental coverage
  • access to a 401(k) retirement plan
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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