Impulse Space

Software Quality Engineer II

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Redondo Beach, CA, USA

In-Office

145K-170K Annually

Mid level

Aerospace • Software

The Role

Ensures quality of mission-critical flight and ground software by defining development and test plans, creating automated pipeline tests, supporting code reviews, monitoring quality metrics, verifying releases, coordinating customer deliveries, and evaluating process compliance. The role supports software missions ranging from low Earth orbit to Mars and requires experience with software QA, test automation, CI/CD, documentation, Git, and process tailoring.

Summary Generated by Built In

As a Software Quality Engineer at Impulse you will ensure that our software maintains the highest standards of quality across complex, mission-critical flight and ground software programs. In this role, you will help to define and document software development and test processes, define tests for our automated testing pipelines, and prepare software releases for space missions anywhere from low Earth orbit to Mars.

Responsibilities

Write software development plans, software configuration management plans, and software test plans to communicate our software development process to our customers and other stakeholders
Define comprehensive test plans, including functional, integration, system, and user acceptance tests
Support development of software documentation and coordinate releases and deliveries with our customers
Monitor, configure, and manage static analysis, code coverage, and other tools 3+ years of Software Quality Engineering experience supporting satellite, spacecraft, constellation, or launch vehicle testing used to verify code quality
Define quality metrics and dashboards for continuous monitoring
Verify release candidates pass testing
Evaluate compliance with our software development process

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other technical discipline
3+ years of demonstrated experience in software quality assurance
Demonstrated proficiency in C, C++, and/or Python languages
Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle
Demonstrated experience tailoring software development processes
Demonstrated experience writing or editing software user documentation
Demonstrated experience with Git repositories and artifacts
Demonstrated experience writing release test plans and tracking the results

Preferred Skills and Experience

Familiarity with MIL-STD-498 or SMC-S-012
3+ years of demonstrated experience with the AS9100 processes
3+ years of Software Quality Engineering experience supporting aerospace programs
Demonstrated experience with static analysis tools
Demonstrated experience with the risk management framework

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.
Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. 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

Bachelor's degree in engineering or another technical discipline
3 or more years of experience in software quality assurance or test automation
Proficiency in C, C++, and/or Python
Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle
Experience tailoring software development processes
Experience writing or editing software user documentation
Experience with Git repositories and artifacts
Experience producing or testing software in a CI/CD pipeline
Familiarity with MIL-STD-498 or SMC-S-012
5 or more years of experience with AS9100 processes
3 or more years of Software Quality Engineering experience supporting satellite, spacecraft, constellation, or launch vehicle testing
Experience with static analysis tools
Experience with the risk management framework
Must be a U.S. Person or eligible to obtain an applicable U.S. export license