Senior Design Reliability Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Design Reliability Engineer at Impulse , you will own the standardization and implementation of Impulse’s design process. You will lead cross-functional efforts on setting design standards, margining approach, configuration management, and templates.

Define and document design standards and best practices for structures, propulsion, avionics, composites, mechanisms, and more
Define and document our margining approach
Own the design release workflow processes, from CAD to PLM to MRP and ERP
Define the design review process, templates, and milestones
Create and manage tools to compile design-informing data and information, traceability of changes, and key decision points
Provide design-for-reliability guidance during design reviews and build planning
Develop and implement robust design configuration management processes
Use build and flight data to influence requirements, assumptions, and decisions
Act as a specification custodian for our design, margining, configuration, and release processes
Ensure product integrity by holding the line on quality standards, extreme-owning design containments, and driving corrective actions to completion
Liaise with build reliability, quality, and flight reliability to solve problems together

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field
5+ years of experience in hardware design and analysis for aerospace, automotive, or high-reliability systems
Demonstrated experience supporting design-for-manufacturing of builds, integration, or test of primary structures and/or complex mechanical or electromechanical systems
Strong problem-solving skills with demonstrated root cause analysis experience
Strong theoretical and working knowledge of GD&T