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Avionics Manufacturing Manager

Impulse Space

Impulse Space

USD 155k-185k / year + Equity
Posted on May 7, 2025
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As the Avionics Manufacturing Manager at Impulse, you will hire, manage, and mentor avionics manufacturing engineers and technicians to support hardware builds for Impulse’s vehicles. You will guide engineers and technicians to establish process requirements, manage daily work scope, set up work cells, and manage a high volume of work. You will support activities ranging from soldering, harnessing, polymerics, PCB assembly, component and vehicle-level installations, and functional and environmental testing. You will work directly with leaders and individual contributors in avionics, software, GNC, propulsion, structures, and other disciplines. You will have the opportunity to contribute to all aspects of spacecraft electronics development.
Department
Manufacturing
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
Redondo Beach
Workplace type
Onsite
Compensation
$155,000 - $185,000 / year
Reporting To

Responsibilities


  • Hire and mentor avionics manufacturing engineers and avionics technicians
  • Lead qual & test efforts for new coatings, potting compounds, adhesives, and other materials
  • Collaborate with electrical design engineers and quality teams to ensure manufacturability, DFM/DFA compliance, and long-term reliability
  • Set daily and weekly production targets, backed by performance metrics
  • Provide day-to-day support for the production floor, resolving build issues, updating work instructions, and improving yields
  • Develop, document, and optimize manufacturing processes for avionics hardware, including PCB assembly, soldering, staking, coating, and connector installation
  • Establish and maintain high technical standards through specifications and training

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
  • 5+ years professional experience manufacturing avionics hardware for spacecraft or other vehicles
  • Professional experience managing and growing a team
  • Experience troubleshooting electronics problems at the board level or system level
  • Ability to communicate technical challenges, explain rationale and/or resolve concerns

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Experience managing both exempt and non-exempt employees
  • Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
  • 5+ years' of demonstrated experience manufacturing and/or designing avionics hardware for space environments beyond LEO
  • Demonstrated experience with new development work for any of the following: optics, star trackers, cameras, motors, reaction wheels, batteries, harnessing, ethernet switches, FPGAs, antennas, or any other specialized area relevant to spacecraft or rockets
  • Desire to improve team processes and train other team members
  • Experience in a startup or agile development environment
Additional Information:

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.


To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

About Impulse Space

Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers throughout LEO. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.

Our Hiring Process

Stage 1:

Application Received

Stage 2:

Resume Review

Stage 3:

Intro Phone Interview

Stage 4:

Technical Phone Interview(s)

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