We provide efficient in-space mobility that moves payloads from low Earth orbit to any destination. Our vehicles deliver rapid, reliable access, reducing costs and timelines to make space operations feasible for commercial, government, and scientific missions. Backed by Founders Fund and Lux.
About the role
We're hiring a Staff Systems Electrical Engineer to own the electrical architecture across our products: power stage, battery integration, control electronics, sensing, and the cross-functional interfaces to firmware, thermal, and mechanical.
What they're looking for
- Demonstrated ownership of system-level architecture: partitioning, interface definition, requirement flowdown
- Involvement in building to BOM cost and COGS targets, with experience contributing to cost-down cycles and second-sourcing
- Analog and mixed-signal depth: sensor interfaces, ADCs, signal conditioning, grounding and return paths
- Embedded software fluency and debugging judgment across domains: enough fluency to specify and review firmware, and the ability to judge whether a symptom is electrical, firmware, thermal, or mechanical
- Comfort using and building AI tools. We use LLMs and agentic tooling in daily engineering work — analysis, scripting, design review, documentation — and we're interested in people who build the tools they need
- Experience taking designs through EMC and product safety certification (UL, IEC, FCC, or similar)
More about this role
Hardware Development · San Francisco
We’re Impulse. We’re a team of engineers, designers and innovators based in San Francisco who believe making good decisions for your home and the environment should not come at a cost to your lifestyle. We’re dedicated to building delightful, high-performance products for everyday needs that enable rewarding, long-term, scalable solutions for whole-home electrification.
We're looking for individuals excited to join an early-stage, VC-backed growing company with powerful aspirations to make positive change in a major industry - come build with us!
We're hiring a Staff Systems Electrical Engineer to own the electrical architecture across our products: power stage, battery integration, control electronics, sensing, and the cross-functional interfaces to firmware, thermal, and mechanical.
Most of our difficult problems cross discipline boundaries. In the cooktop, coil drive efficiency is a magnetics problem, a control problem, and a thermal problem at the same time. Emissions compliance is largely determined by layout and switching decisions made months before the first system-level test is completed. Driving the electrical architecture of the...
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