Plans and coordinates software development across multiple spacecraft programs. Manages schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, resources, integration and verification activities, and software readiness. Facilitates Agile planning and cross-functional meetings while reporting progress to engineering leadership and program stakeholders. Improves project management processes, tools, and reporting to increase execution visibility and efficiency.
As a Technical Project Manager (Software) at Impulse Space, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and driving the execution of software development efforts across multiple spacecraft programs. You will work closely with Flight Software, Ground Software, GNC, Avionics, and Integration & Test teams to ensure software deliverables align with program schedules and mission milestones. You will help engineering teams identify and resolve technical dependencies, manage development risks, and maintain visibility into software readiness throughout the spacecraft development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain integrated software development schedules across Flight Software, Ground Software teams, and other software teams, ensuring alignment with spacecraft program milestones
- Work with engineering leads and responsible engineers to define software deliverables, establish priorities, and track progress against development schedules
- Coordinate software development activities across multiple spacecraft programs, balancing competing priorities, resource constraints, and technical dependencies
- Identify and manage critical-path activities, technical risks, schedule risks, and cross-functional dependencies that could impact software delivery
- Facilitate software planning activities, including sprint planning, milestone reviews, and cross-team coordination meetings
- Coordinate software integration, verification, and validation activities to ensure adequate time for testing and issue resolution ahead of major program milestones
- Communicate software development progress, schedule risks, and technical dependencies to engineering leadership and program stakeholders
- Develop and improve project management processes, tools, and reporting mechanisms to increase visibility and execution efficiency across software teams
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, embedded systems, or a comparable technical role
- 2+ years of experience in technical project management, program management, or coordinating complex software development efforts
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, including requirements definition, design, implementation, integration, testing, and release management
- Demonstrated experience developing and managing engineering schedules, tracking milestones, identifying dependencies, and mitigating program risks
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog management, and iterative development
- Proficiency with Jira for tracking development tasks, milestones, dependencies, and schedules
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, technical leads, and program leadership
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Demonstrated experience developing or managing software for spacecraft, launch vehicles, autonomous systems, robotics, or other complex embedded systems
- Demonstrated experience coordinating hardware and software integration, hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing, and system-level verification and validation
- Demonstrated experience supporting aerospace program milestones, including design reviews, integration readiness reviews, qualification testing, acceptance testing, and launch readiness
- Familiarity with software release management, configuration management, continuous integration, and automated testing
- Understanding of systems engineering practices, including requirements management, interface control documents (ICDs), and verification planning
- Experience with Jira Plans (Advanced Roadmaps) and Smartsheet
- Demonstrated experience managing software development schedules across multiple concurrent programs
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.
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