Jobs at Impulse Space

Owns spacecraft navigation and state-estimation systems across development and operations. Designs and validates Kalman filters, sensor and measurement models, orbit and attitude determination, astrodynamic analyses, covariance studies, and navigation error budgets. Implements C++ flight software, supports SIL/HIL testing, conducts Monte Carlo analyses, generates verification data, and provides real-time operations and anomaly response support for missions in LEO, GEO, and cislunar space.

Leads the Mission Design and Flight Dynamics team, owning technical direction, hiring, mission analysis, trajectory optimization, navigation architectures, orbit determination, maneuver planning, flight dynamics operations, automation, customer proposals, and regulatory support across LEO, GEO, cislunar, and interplanetary missions.

Own spacecraft-level autonomous behavior across all mission phases, including autonomy architecture, fault management, safing, recovery logic, mode transitions, and decision boundaries. Coordinate autonomy across flight software, GNC, avionics, and ground systems; define interfaces; configure mission automations; and drive system-level verification using SIL, HIL, and mission simulations. Support integration, testing, and mission operations for safety-critical spacecraft systems.

Develop and maintain visualization tools for spacecraft simulations, mission demonstrations, test support, and camera-system emulation. Build high-fidelity models for vision-system development and testing, create graphical displays for spacecraft telemetry and sensor data, improve simulation workflows, and support mission rehearsals and operations. Collaborate with GNC, Space Operations, Mission Design, Business Development, and Testbed teams.

Supports guidance, navigation, and control analysis, testing, and flight operations for spacecraft. Responsibilities include developing simulation models, characterizing on-orbit GNC performance, testing real flight hardware, automating analysis and testing, and writing robust flight software. The intern collaborates with software and propulsion engineers while contributing to mission analysis and spacecraft development.

Design, implement, integrate, and verify real-time flight software for guidance, navigation, control, telemetry, mission sequencing, autonomy, and fault management. Develop deterministic, safety-critical embedded code, support testing, integration, launches, and on-orbit operations.

Design and develop propulsion valves and fluid components from concept through product realization. Create CAD models and drawings, perform fluid/thermal/structural analysis, define assembly procedures, support testing and qualification, and resolve technical issues while collaborating with technicians and multidisciplinary teams.

Lead architecture, development, and verification of guidance, navigation, and control systems for spacecraft across flight, test, and simulation. Develop control algorithms, participate in flight software and simulation, generate verification data, mentor engineers, create reusable tools, and resolve technical issues to enable rapid mission realization.

Design, implement, and verify guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) systems for high-performance space vehicles. Develop algorithms, flight and simulation software, verification data, tools, and resolve technical issues while communicating with and supporting the broader engineering team.

Develop and maintain high-fidelity physics-based simulations of vehicle dynamics, sensors, actuators, and propulsion; integrate simulations into HIL testbeds; validate models with test data; support system analysis, trade studies, verification/validation, and mission rehearsals; contribute to simulation tooling and software workflows.