Systems Engineer III (Aerospace)

Location: Lone Tree, Colorado, United States; hybrid environment with occasional travel

Salary: $108,496.89–$149,183.22 per year

Company

hirify.global develops aerospace, ISR, aviation, defense, and national security systems, including next-generation airborne command-and-control capabilities for the U.S. Air Force.

What you will do

• Decompose and allocate nuclear survivability requirements covering radiation, EMP/HEMP, blast, and thermal effects.
• Maintain requirements traceability from system-level criteria through design and test artifacts.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and specialty engineering teams to implement requirements across the system architecture.
• Support radiation test planning, data review, documentation, and hardness assurance or hardness surveillance activities.
• Prepare compliance matrices, verification plans, and technical reports for internal and government customer reviews.
• Lead system and decision analysis, technical planning, risk management, technical monitoring, and lifecycle management while mentoring junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• Experience developing, decomposing, and tracing requirements for complex systems.
• Familiarity with nuclear survivability concepts, including radiation effects, hardness assurance, and EMP, or the ability to learn them quickly.
• Understanding of systems engineering across requirements, design, verification, and validation lifecycles.
• Experience with JIRA, Jama, and Cameo; strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• U.S. citizenship is required, and the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S. Security Clearance is required for employment.

Nice to have

• Experience with nuclear survivability standards such as MIL-STD-3023 or DG-1023.
• Experience with radiation hardness assurance programs, radiation test facilities, test data analysis, or hardness surveillance monitoring.
• Familiarity with DOORS or Jama requirements management tools.
• Active U.S. government security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with a 150% match up to 6%.
• Life insurance and three weeks of paid time off.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Collaborative work focused on aerospace, national security, and mission-critical innovation.