Spacecraft Operations Engineer II/Senior I (Spacecraft Operations)

Location: Littleton, Colorado, United States; based on site

Base salary: $81,600–$137,500 USD per year, plus potential stock, cash incentives, and employee stock purchase program participation.

Company

hirify.global is an end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, critical subsystems, and mission hardware for commercial, exploration, and national security customers.

What you will do

• Manage the health, safety, and performance of satellite fleets across commissioning, orbit raising, routine operations, and re-entry.
• Design, develop, and test ground software, operational scripts, flight software sequences, FDIR, and telemetry configurations.
• Maintain continuous integration and testing for operational code, develop test methods, and analyze mission data.
• Validate spacecraft behavior using flatsat, hardware-in-the-loop, and other simulation tools.
• Support spacecraft integrated tests, including TVAC, propulsion stack, and DITL activities.
• Develop mission requirements, interface specifications, CONOPS, design documents, and technical support for program teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in software, computer, electrical, aerospace, mechanical, or another technical engineering discipline.
• 2+ years of relevant experience for Engineer II or 5+ years for Senior Engineer I in space mission design, satellite subsystems, ground systems, spacecraft command and control, or spacecraft operations.
• Understanding of spacecraft subsystems, including attitude determination and control, electrical power, space-ground communications, command and data handling, and thermal control.
• Understanding of the space environment, orbital mechanics, and rigid body dynamics.
• Software development experience with Python, Ruby, C, C++, or another high-level language.
• U.S. citizenship is required for the stated program requirements, and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance is required.

Nice to have

• Master’s or PhD in engineering.
• Experience in spacecraft operations, satellite system design, or satellite ground systems.
• Exposure to Git, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, software-in-the-loop, or hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• TS/SCI clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a vertically integrated Space Systems organization supporting commercial, exploration, and defense missions.
• Collaborate with engineering teams in Littleton, Long Beach, and Auckland.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan options, paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, and parental leave.
• On-call or shift-based operations may be required, along with occasional exposure to production-area noise, dust, and fumes.