IT Systems Engineer, Impulse Space
Test
$160-185k
More information about location
Office located in Redondo Beach, CA
In-space mobility company
Be an early applicant
In-space mobility company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-185k
More information about location
Office located in Redondo Beach, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate humanity's future in space through efficient transportation anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Strong networking expertise including switching, routing, VLANs, and troubleshooting
- Hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting time-synchronized systems (PTP/NTP)
- Experience designing physical infrastructure and facility network deployments
- Administration experience with Linux and Windows systems
- Cisco or equivalent enterprise networking experience
- Onsite role embedded within test facilities
- Leadership during infrastructure deployment and active testing operations
- Work performed in laboratory, datacenter, and industrial environments
Desirable
- 7+ years’ experience supporting infrastructure or test engineering environments
- Aerospace, manufacturing, or propulsion test environment experience
- Deterministic or time-sensitive networking experience
- Virtualization and hybrid cloud integration experience
- Infrastructure automation experience
- Experience operating in regulated or compliance-driven environments
What the job involves
- The IT Systems Engineer II (Test) at Impulse designs, deploys, and owns infrastructure enabling hardware testing, telemetry, and engineering operations across test facilities
- This role bridges enterprise IT standards with specialized test-environment requirements, ensuring deterministic, time-synchronized, and highly reliable infrastructure supporting active test programs
- Engineers at this level independently deliver infrastructure solutions, lead test stand bring-ups, and assume ownership of networking, timing, and systems platforms within integration and test environments
- Design and deploy infrastructure for test facilities, including rack layouts, MDF/IDF architecture, and fiber distribution
- Lead infrastructure projects for test stand deployments, relocations, and facility expansions
- Plan and manage scalable, redundant, and high-capacity network architectures
- Design and operate deterministic test networks with IEEE-1588 PTP and NTP synchronization
- Troubleshoot latency, packet loss, and timing issues affecting telemetry and control systems
- Engineer and maintain servers, virtualization platforms, storage, and hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure
- Implement backup, recovery, and infrastructure lifecycle management strategies
- Develop automation and infrastructure-as-code solutions to improve provisioning and test readiness
- Support CI/CD integration and collaborate with Test and Automation Engineering teams during live operations
- Ensure infrastructure security, segmentation, compliance, and
Application process
- Application Received
- Resume Review
- Intro Phone Interview
- Technical Phone Interview(s)
- Onsite Interview
- Offers
Our take
Impulse Space is developing a line of orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) that enhance satellite manoeuvrability in space. The company offers products like Mira, for last-mile satellite deliveries and Helios, which can move spacecraft from low Earth orbit to geosynchronous orbit in under 24 hours.
Recognizing the strategic value of manoeuvrable spacecraft, the US Space Force awarded Impulse a $34.5M contract for two missions set for 2026. These missions, Victus Surgo and Victus Salo, will demonstrate in-space operations and enhance space domain awareness, showcasing the Space Force's focus on quickly responding to threats in a congested space environment.
Alongside this, the company secured substantial funding that will allow it to expand its operations and advance its OTV technology. With a proven track record of successful missions and strategic partnerships with the Department of Defense, Impulse is well-positioned to lead in the growing market for responsive satellite services.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2025
$300m
SERIES C
Oct 2024
$150m
SERIES B
Total funding: $585m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision: Enjoy the best medical, dental and optical coverage money can buy. We've got you and your family covered for all eventualities
- Company Ownership: You’ll be contributing to Impulse's success, so you deserve to share in it. All full-time employees receive a meaningful equity allocation
- Flexible PTO Policy: We believe in work-life harmony more so than "balance". When you are happy & fulfilled outside of work, you will be more productive when you're in it. We offer generous PTO accrual to our full-time employees
Company HQ
South Redondo, Redondo Beach, CA
Leadership
Thomas Mueller
(Founder, CEO & CTO)Prior to founding Impulse Space in 2021, they spent almost 2 decades at SpaceX, initially as a VP of Propulsion Engineering before becoming the Propulsion CTO.
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