Deburr Technician

Deburr Technician

As a Deburr Technician at Impulse, you will be responsible for manufacturing machined and printed components and structures for spacecraft.

Responsibilities:

• Perform precision deburring, surface finishing on tight-tolerance machined parts for space flight hardware using hand tools, rotary tools, and abrasives.
• Inspect parts and ensure all components meet drawing specifications, and engineering requirements
• Chase threads, cut threads, and install thread inserts
• Perform cleaning operations required for space flight hardware
• Review work instructions and specifications, and complete work buyoffs electronically as the work is being performed. Follow detailed work instructions, travelers, and engineering drawings.
• Hand drilling, match drilling, step drilling, tapping, countersinking, and chamfering using pneumatic drills and hand tools
• Collaborate closely with machinists, quality inspectors, and engineers to resolve deburring-related issues.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to improve deburring processes, tooling, and techniques for complex geometries.
• Maintain a clean and organized work area consistent with 5S and FOD prevention standards.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalency certificate
• 1+ year of hands-on hardware manufacturing experience in a production environment

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrated experience with drilling, reaming, countersinking tight-tolerance holes using electric or pneumatic tools, specifically on in-space hardware
• Ability to read and interpret drawings and blueprints. Understands drawing symbols, flag notes, and section views
• Understands GD&T, and understands which features can be reworked to meet GD&T requirements

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:

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.