The Role
Support manufacturing engineering teams developing and improving processes for spacecraft components and vehicles. Evaluate fabrication methods, create assembly and inspection processes, collaborate with design teams on reliable and cost-efficient hardware, and resolve technical issues. The intern will gain hands-on experience across machining, structures, propulsion, fabrication, and hardware development from design through build and test. This is a 12-week, on-site internship in Redondo Beach, California, with possible overtime.
Summary Generated by Built In
As a Manufacturing Engineering Intern, you will work across all aspects of manufacturing and assembling spacecraft components, taking them from development test articles to high volume production, while working along side a fast-paced, agile team.
*This internship is 12 weeks long from May/June through August/September 2027*
Responsibilities
- Support our Manufacturing Engineering teams: Machine Shop, Structures Engineering, and Propulsion Engineering, to develop and continuously improve manufacturing processes for space-grade components and vehicles
- Work with the design and development teams to produce highly reliable, cost
efficient hardware - Identify optimal processes for fabricating parts by evaluating manufacturing techniques such additive, subtractive, forming, welding, brazing, etc.
- Create efficient and reliable assembly and inspection processes
- Resolve technical issues with innovative and resourceful solutions
Minimum Qualifications
- Completion or working towards a degree in engineering or science
- Ability to take project ownership and work well in a small team
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with basic fabrication tools and processes (electric/pneumatic power tools, tube bending, machining, welding, etc.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Hands-on experience with product or process improvements
- Experience with Design for Manufacturability and complex assemblies
- Familiarity with CAD software and ability to learn new tools
- Demonstrated experience getting a hardware project through the design, build, test phase
Additional Requirements:
- Willing and able to work on-site in Redondo Beach, CA for the duration of the internship
- This position may require overtime hours; interns are eligible for overtime pay.
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, 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.
Skills Required
- Completion of or current enrollment in an engineering or science degree program
- Ability to take project ownership and work effectively in a small team
- Hands-on experience with basic fabrication tools and processes, including electric or pneumatic power tools, tube bending, machining, or welding
- Willingness and ability to work on-site in Redondo Beach, California, for the duration of the internship
- U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residency, protected-individual status, or eligibility to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations under ITAR regulations
- Hands-on experience with product or process improvements
- Experience with Design for Manufacturability and complex assemblies
- Familiarity with CAD software and ability to learn new tools
- Experience taking a hardware project through design, build, and test
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The Company
What We Do
Impulse enables low-cost and nimble last-mile space payload delivery - access any orbit, reach other worlds.
