Senior Quality Engineer I (Aerospace)

Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States; onsite at hirify.global's Albuquerque site. The role may require travel for off-site testing, customer repair trips, or program meetings.

Company

hirify.global is an end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical aerospace subsystems for commercial, civil, and national security missions.

What you will do

• Promote a quality culture centered on continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence.
• Manage and continuously improve the Quality Management System, including procedures, work instructions, manuals, records, and compliance processes.
• Collaborate on design reviews, new product development, contract reviews, engineering changes, in-process monitoring, and product lifecycle quality.
• Lead quality improvements, root cause analysis, corrective actions, internal and supplier audits, nonconformance reviews, and material or corrective action boards.
• Develop sampling plans, inspection requirements, and procedures for incoming, in-process, and final product quality assurance.
• Automate and monitor quality metrics covering discrepancies, nonconformances, supplier quality, corrective actions, RMAs, KPIs, and cost of poor quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• 5+ years of experience in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience implementing cross-functional projects in a technical environment.
• For U.S. office roles, eligibility under U.S. Government space technology export regulations is required: U.S. citizenship, lawful U.S. permanent residence, refugee or asylum status, or eligibility to obtain the required authorizations.
• Ability to work for prolonged periods sitting, standing, walking, and using a computer, with occasional exposure to moderate noise, dust, and fumes in production areas.

Nice to have

• Experience writing and optimizing SQL queries, maintaining data integrity, and creating reports with Power BI or other business intelligence tools.
• Experience automating document creation, assembly, and distribution.
• Familiarity with Quality Management System standards and principles, statistics, and data-driven problem solving.
• Ability to interpret technical procedures, drawings, government regulations, and standards, and to write quality procedures.
• Strong communication skills and experience working with customers, regulatory agencies, inspectors, manufacturing teams, and other cross-functional groups.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced environment focused on hard work, determination, innovation, teamwork, and tight deadlines.
• Work on real spacecraft, payloads, and aerospace components supporting missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
• Collaborative culture with an emphasis on humility, shared responsibility, and hands-on execution.
• Opportunity to contribute to commercial space, national security, and defense programs.