Senior Spacecraft Qualification Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Berlin, Germany; full-time, in-office work 5 days per week. Occasional travel is required for testing and integration operations.

Salary: €68,500–€85,600 gross per year in Germany.

Company

hirify.global designs, manufactures, operates, and delivers data from a large constellation of imaging satellites through a cloud-based platform.

What you will do

• Own spacecraft environmental test execution, including vibration, shock, thermal cycling, and thermal vacuum campaigns.
• Act as the primary technical authority during test operations and respond to anomalies and off-nominal events.
• Set up instrumentation, data acquisition systems, test monitoring tools, and test configurations.
• Analyze test data, identify failures and unexpected hardware responses, and develop recovery plans.
• Coordinate technicians and cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, systems, quality, and R&D teams.
• Improve test procedures, facility capabilities, operational reliability, and technical documentation.

Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant engineering experience and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, thermal, electro-mechanical, or robotics engineering.
• Experience owning environmental test campaigns for flight or flight-like hardware.
• Knowledge of spacecraft systems, structural dynamics, vibration theory, heat transfer, thermal management, and environmental verification standards.
• Ability to evaluate test data, assess risk, make engineering decisions during abnormal situations, and protect personnel and flight hardware.
• Proficiency with SolidWorks CAD and FEA or an equivalent tool.
• Ability to work independently, lead technicians, and collaborate with international engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with vibration shakers, thermal and TVAC chambers, shock machines, and laboratory test equipment.
• Experience building and operating DAQ systems with accelerometers, load cells, and other sensors.
• Machine shop, prototyping, rapid iteration, or agile process experience.
• Familiarity with Raspberry Pi, Node-RED, or Python and an interest in test automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid vacation, holidays, and company-wide days off.
• Employee wellness program and home office reimbursement.
• Monthly phone and internet reimbursement.
• Tuition reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Equity and paid volunteering time off.