Manager of IT Engineering & Infrastructure (AI&T)

• The Manager, IT Engineering & Infrastructure (AI&T) at Impulse is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and operation of infrastructure platforms supporting integration, test, and engineering environments
• This role owns the technical backbone of AI&T systems, including lab infrastructure, test networks, compute platforms, and supporting services required for reliable and repeatable test operations
• The Manager leads a team of engineers and partners closely with AI&T and engineering organizations to ensure infrastructure supports system integration, validation, and mission readiness
• This role reports into the IT organization with functional alignment to the AI&T (Assembly, Integration, and Test) team, ensuring infrastructure strategy and execution directly support integration and test objectives
• Define and execute infrastructure strategy for integration, test, and engineering environments
• Oversee architecture and lifecycle management for networks, compute, storage, cloud, and lab infrastructure
• Ensure high availability, scalability, reliability, and time-synchronized operations across test systems
• Lead and develop systems and network engineering teams while establishing technical standards and best practices
• Drive technical decision-making aligned with long-term operational, scalability, and reliability goals
• Manage infrastructure supporting test facilities, lab environments, structured cabling, and real-time data systems
• Coordinate test stand deployments, facility upgrades, and infrastructure readiness for integration and test activities
• Lead automation, infrastructure-as-code, and platform engineering initiatives to improve deployment consistency and operational efficiency
• Establish monitoring, observability, incident response, and root cause analysis practices to ensure operational excellence
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, zero-trust architecture, regulatory requirements, and secure engineering data management while collaborating with cross-functional teams and vendors
• Onsite leadership supporting lab and operational environments
• Accountability for infrastructure readiness during test campaigns
• Participation in critical incident response and major operational events

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision: Enjoy the best medical, dental and optical coverage money can buy. We’ve got you and your family covered for all eventualities
• Company Ownership: You’ll be contributing to Impulse’s success, so you deserve to share in it. All full-time employees receive a meaningful equity allocation
• Flexible PTO Policy: We believe in work-life harmony more so than “balance”. When you are happy & fulfilled outside of work, you will be more productive when you’re in it. We offer generous PTO accrual to our full-time employees

Preferred experience

• Experience leading technical teams supporting complex infrastructure environments
• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or related domains
• Experience designing and operating infrastructure in lab, test, or engineering environments
• 2+ years of leadership or team management experience
• Strong background in networking, systems, and platform engineering
• Proven ability to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure solutions
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills
• 4+ years experience leading technical teams supporting complex infrastructure environments
• Aerospace, manufacturing, or test environment experience
• Experience with deterministic or time-sensitive systems
• Experience operating in regulated or compliance-driven environments
• Experience driving infrastructure automation and platform engineering initiatives