Description
IT Systems Engineer II (Test)
Department: Information Technology
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Redondo Beach, California, Redondo Beach
The IT Systems Engineer II (Test) at Impulse designs, deploys, and owns infrastructure enabling hardware testing, telemetry, and engineering operations across test facilities. This role bridges enterprise IT standards with specialized test-environment requirements, ensuring deterministic, time-synchronized, and highly reliable infrastructure supporting active test programs. Engineers at this level independently deliver infrastructure solutions, lead test stand bring-ups, and assume ownership of networking, timing, and systems platforms within integration and test environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy infrastructure for test facilities, including rack layouts, MDF/IDF architecture, and fiber distribution
- Lead infrastructure projects for test stand deployments, relocations, and facility expansions
- Plan and manage scalable, redundant, and high-capacity network architectures
- Design and operate deterministic test networks with IEEE-1588 PTP and NTP synchronization
- Troubleshoot latency, packet loss, and timing issues affecting telemetry and control systems
- Engineer and maintain servers, virtualization platforms, storage, and hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure
- Implement backup, recovery, and infrastructure lifecycle management strategies
- Develop automation and infrastructure-as-code solutions to improve provisioning and test readiness
- Support CI/CD integration and collaborate with Test and Automation Engineering teams during live operations
- Ensure infrastructure security, segmentation, compliance, and alignment with zero-trust and enterprise IT standards
Minimum Qualifications
- Strong networking expertise including switching, routing, VLANs, and troubleshooting
- Hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting time-synchronized systems (PTP/NTP)
- Experience designing physical infrastructure and facility network deployments
- Administration experience with Linux and Windows systems
- Cisco or equivalent enterprise networking experience
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 7+ years’ experience supporting infrastructure or test engineering environments
- Aerospace, manufacturing, or propulsion test environment experience
- Deterministic or time-sensitive networking experience
- Virtualization and hybrid cloud integration experience
- Infrastructure automation experience
- Experience operating in regulated or compliance-driven environments
Operational Expectations
- Onsite role embedded within test facilities
- Leadership during infrastructure deployment and active testing operations
- Work performed in laboratory, datacenter, and industrial environments
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.
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