Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering – National Security (Defense)

Location: US Remote; travel up to 50%, including regular international travel, is required.

Annual base salary: $172,000–$215,000 plus commission, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous drones and integrated hardware and software solutions for utility, public safety, defense, and national security customers.

What you will do

• Lead, hire, coach, and develop the National Security Solutions Engineering team.
• Own technical strategy for defense pursuits, evaluations, proofs of concept, field trials, deployments, and customer escalations.
• Shape requirements with program offices, capability development staffs, and military operators.
• Guide UAS integration with tactical radios, mission-planning systems, command-and-control applications, and secure networks.
• Lead accreditation, airworthiness, airspace, flight-clearance, BVLOS, waiver, and range-approval considerations.
• Represent customer requirements to Product and Engineering through reusable technical assets, reference architectures, and prioritized product feedback.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant technical experience, including customer-facing technical work with defense customers.
• 5+ years of federal government or defense experience in UAS-related operations, maintenance, ISR, testing, acquisition, or training.
• At least 1 year leading a technical team, including hiring, mentorship, or technical leadership responsibilities.
• Experience with defense acquisition from requirements development through evaluation, award, and fielding.
• Technical depth in UAS platforms, RF and datalink systems, EO/IR payloads, software integration and APIs, cloud and data architecture, or government IT security.
• Active Secret or Top Secret clearance, or the ability to obtain one; ability to travel up to 50% and lift up to 60 lbs unaided.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting SOCOM, military services, special operations units, or maritime UAS operations.
• Military UAS operator, maintainer, or instructor certification.
• Experience with contested or degraded environments, EW, GPS-denied operations, secure tactical radios, and mission planning.
• Experience with RMF or ATO packages, OTAs, SBIR Phase III transitions, ITAR, FMS, or foreign disclosure.
• Working knowledge of Salesforce, Palantir, Databricks, or equivalent tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with frequent customer, field, deployment, and company-event travel.
• Regular full-time employment with health insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, holiday pay, and a 401(k) savings plan.
• Stock options and commission in addition to base salary.
• Inclusive, multidisciplinary environment focused on diverse perspectives and complex technical problem-solving.

Hiring process

• FAA Part 107 certification is strongly encouraged within the first 60 days and required for certain positions.