Senior Electric Propulsion Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Los Angeles, with in-person collaboration at the Playa Vista office

Salary: $165K–$220K base salary, plus potential commission and additional benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures satellite buses at scale using software, vertical integration, and hardware designed for manufacturing.

What you will do

• Design electric propulsion system architectures, product specifications, and technical performance metrics, including power and mass budgets.
• Define propulsion system placement and integration across spacecraft subsystems such as electrical, thermal, and structural systems.
• Design high-pressure fluidic systems, instrumentation, and control components, including tanks, regulators, sensors, thermocouples, and solenoid valves.
• Develop qualification and acceptance test plans and support vibration, shock, and thermal vacuum testing.
• Create manufacturing work instructions, process flow diagrams, and assembly, integration, and test procedures while applying design-for-manufacturability principles.
• Lead anomaly investigations, supplier and customer interfaces, requirements verification, safety analyses, trade studies, and vendor coordination.

Requirements

• U.S. Person status is required to access export-controlled data.
• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electric propulsion, aerospace, or another related engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of electric propulsion design and test experience.
• Experience handling and testing pressurized systems and designing fluidic systems, instrumentation, and control components.
• Strong knowledge of propulsion, spacecraft systems, and range safety requirements, including SSCMAN 91-710.
• Experience with CAD software such as NX or SolidWorks and manufacturing in a clean environment under AS9100 protocols.

Nice to have

• Master's or Ph.D. in mechanical, electric propulsion, aerospace, or a related engineering discipline.
• Experience operating leak, burst, and proof test facilities.
• Experience leading electric propulsion hot-fire test campaigns involving high-voltage power, fluid delivery, data acquisition, thrust stands, and plasma diagnostics.
• Experience with electric propulsion operations in space.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity participation and a fast-growing startup environment supported by more than $500M in funding.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, plus $100K life insurance.
• Paid time off starting at 15 vacation days, increasing to 20+ days annually, plus 10 paid holidays.
• 401(k) plan with employer matching and eight weeks of paid parental leave.
• Childcare reimbursement for work-related travel, catered lunch, snacks, office socials, and collaboration at the Playa Vista office.