Spacecraft Integration Engineer
Location
Redondo Beach, CA
Wage
$105,000 – $165,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 25, 2026
Location
Redondo Beach, CA
Wage
$105,000 – $165,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 25, 2026
As a Spacecraft Integration Engineer at Impulse, you will own all aspects of the spacecraft build from vehicle assembly through checkouts and launch site integration. This position is a growth opportunity open to high performers of any experience level above the basic qualifications.
At roughly $65/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $71/hr median for welding jobs in Redondo Beach, CA, whose middle half runs $51–$77/hr across 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 50% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
Redondo Beach, CA currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 596 other active welding openings from 294 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Redondo Beach, or widen the search to California.
Impulse Space currently has 7 other openings live in California, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (34), Aerotek (16), and Volt (16). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Redondo Beach at $71/hr, Long Beach at $49/hr, and Santa Ana at $48/hr. Redondo Beach is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Spacecraft Integration Engineer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.