Senior Business Development Manager, Advanced Manufacturing (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Salary: $122,000–$182,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops rockets and advanced manufacturing technologies, including the Terran R launch vehicle and Horizon Manufacturing Technologies.

What you will do

• Lead the end-to-end RFQ/RFP process from customer inquiry through feasibility assessment, cost estimation, risk evaluation, scheduling, and proposal delivery.
• Build repeatable bidding workflows, templates, qualification criteria, and bid/no-bid decision frameworks.
• Develop cost and pricing models for complex additively manufactured metal parts, including materials, labor, equipment utilization, post-processing, and risk.
• Evaluate customer designs for manufacturability, geometric limitations, material requirements, and post-processing needs.
• Collaborate with engineering on alternative manufacturing approaches and qualification plans.
• Support customer meetings, technical presentations, sales activities, and contract negotiations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in technical bidding, sales engineering, or application engineering within contract manufacturing, additive manufacturing, metal fabrication, or job shop environments.
• Hands-on knowledge of welding, machining, heat treatment, post-processing, and design for manufacturing.
• Ability to interpret engineering documents and translate customer requirements into internal technical requirements for accurate quoting.
• Experience building structured processes and communicating with executives, engineers, procurement teams, and cross-functional partners.
• Ability to coordinate engineering, operations, and commercial teams without formal authority.
• Comfort working in ambiguous, entrepreneurial, and resource-constrained environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with Wire Arc Direct Energy Deposition or large-scale metal additive manufacturing.
• Manufacturing engineering, welding, metallurgy, or hands-on fabrication experience.
• Defense or aerospace contract manufacturing experience, including CUI, DFARS, ITAR, AS9100, or work with prime and government customers.
• Early-stage or startup manufacturing experience building bidding and estimating processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Work across aerospace, defense, marine, energy, and nuclear manufacturing applications.
• Collaborate with welders, robotics engineers, data scientists, and systems engineers.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave, parental leave, and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Equal opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodation support.