Development Test Lead (Aerospace)

Location: Torrance, California, or Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States

Company

hirify.global develops and delivers advanced defense systems in an early-stage, fast-paced engineering environment.

What you will do

• Build, lead, and mentor a team of 4–7 engineers and technicians.
• Design, build, train, and operate test systems from concept through execution.
• Own development test strategy across structural, dynamic, functional, and environmental domains.
• Manage multiple parallel test campaigns and prioritize testing resources.
• Drive tests to failure, identify primary and secondary failure modes, and improve reliability.
• Maintain test infrastructure, laboratory capabilities, external resources, and company-wide testing visibility.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on hardware testing, prototyping, lab-based engineering, and project management experience.
• Strong familiarity with instrumentation, sensors, and data acquisition systems.
• Experience leading engineering and technician teams and driving cross-functional execution.
• Experience writing technical reports and procedures and building test-result capture frameworks.
• Ability to evaluate system-level risk and develop customer-aligned test strategies.

Nice to have

• Structural or reliability testing experience in aerospace, automotive, or related industries.
• Experience in high-rate development or rapid prototyping environments.
• Proficiency with Python, LabVIEW, JIRA, DEWESoft, or similar automation tools.
• Exposure to physics-of-failure analysis and reliability engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Generous benefits package.
• Strong emphasis on focus, ownership, excellence, and safety.
• Opportunity to work in an early-stage environment with significant ownership and measurable mission impact.
• Access to classified information or restricted U.S. Government sites may require security clearance, government authorization, citizenship, or other legal eligibility.
• Access to export-controlled information requires eligibility under applicable U.S. export-control requirements without additional licensing.