IT Systems Engineer (Test)

• 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
• 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

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

• Experience designing physical infrastructure and facility network deployments

• Onsite role embedded within test facilities

• Hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting time-synchronized systems (PTP/NTP)

• Work performed in laboratory, datacenter, and industrial environments

• Administration experience with Linux and Windows systems

• Leadership during infrastructure deployment and active testing operations

• Cisco or equivalent enterprise networking experience

• Strong networking expertise including switching, routing, VLANs, and troubleshooting

• 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

• Application Received

• Resume Review

• Intro Phone Interview

• Technical Phone Interview(s)

• Onsite Interview

• Offers