Staff Engineer, Manufacturing Equipment (Aerospace)

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States; on-site

Salary: $150,000–$230,000 per year, plus bonus, benefits, and equity for regular employees.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, including autonomy software, aircraft, and simulation technologies.

What you will do

• Own the technical lifecycle of production equipment, test racks, and test cells from production readiness through sustainment and continuous improvement.
• Troubleshoot equipment failures, downtime events, and test anomalies using root-cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions.
• Drive reliability, availability, maintainability, safety, uptime, and throughput improvements.
• Develop equipment documentation, including schematics, bills of materials, calibration plans, maintenance procedures, and operating instructions.
• Execute equipment acceptance testing, validation, production handoff, upgrades, obsolescence management, and capacity expansion.
• Mentor junior engineers and technicians and manage vendors and integrators for equipment design, build, and modification.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience supporting production equipment, test racks, or test cells in manufacturing or test environments.
• Hands-on experience with electromechanical systems, controls, instrumentation, and data acquisition.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex equipment across hardware, software, and controls domains.
• Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation for production equipment.
• Ability to work on the factory floor in an on-site role in Seattle.

Nice to have

• Experience with automated or semi-automated production and test equipment.
• Familiarity with PLCs, HMIs, industrial networks, LabVIEW, Python, or similar test software.
• Experience with equipment safety standards, lockout/tagout, risk assessments, and scaling equipment to higher-rate manufacturing.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical projects without direct authority.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time regular employees receive pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
• Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
• Artificial intelligence tools may support parts of the hiring process, while final decisions are made by humans.