Mission Integration Engineer (Commercial & Civil)

About the Role

As a Mission Integration Engineer at Impulse, you will support the technical integration of commercial and civil space customer payloads and mission requirements onto Impulse space vehicles. You will work closely with customer technical teams and internal engineering disciplines, establishing and tracking hardware, software, and operational interfaces from kickoff through delivery. You will assist in technical problem-solving, maintain baseline interface documentation, and support mission integration readiness across dynamic flight programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in maintaining technical baseline documentation, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and compliance matrices for customer missions.
• Support multi-disciplinary coordination across different technical focus areas to resolve integration issues.
• Partner with Responsible Engineers (REs) and Mission Managers to evaluate evolving spacecraft capabilities against customer requirements.
• Help identify technical risks early in the mission lifecycle and formulate engineering trade-offs and mitigations.
• Support mission verification, environmental test reviews, and launch site integration flows.
• Maintain traceability through clear action item tracking, meeting records, and analysis/test/inspection data in shared company repositories.
• Occasionally travel to support hardware integration events, test campaigns, or launch operations (less than 20% travel).

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 0–2+ years of professional or hands-on academic/internship experience in systems engineering, mission integration, or complex technical project execution.
• Foundational understanding of core aerospace subsystem interfaces.
• Familiarity with tracking technical requirements against deliverables.
• Exposure to maintaining technical documentation, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), or verification matrices.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in an engineering discipline (Preferred).
• Experience working directly as a technical point of contact with external partners or customers in a fast-paced environment (Preferred).
• Familiarity with commercial space markets, launch service providers, civil space mission lifecycles, or institutional agency processes (Preferred).
• Strong organizational skills with a track record of documenting technical processes, interface definitions, and verification logic (Preferred).