# Staff Systems Electrical Engineer- Hardware Development at impulse

- Company: impulse
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.impulsespace.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $170K to $185K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/impulse/9c515dba-d660-41b5-af1b-3cfe85ee9349
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/impulse-staff-systems-electrical-engineer-hardware-development/

## 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)

Tags: Hardware