Staff Engineering Laboratory Manager (Aerospace & Defense)

Location: Full-time on-site in El Segundo, California, United States

Salary: $184,000–$231,000 base compensation per year

Company

hirify.global develops advanced aerospace and defense systems powered by Coherent Distributed Networks for defense, commercial air operations, and border protection.

What you will do

• Own the daily operation, readiness, security, and continuous improvement of classified and unclassified engineering laboratories, test areas, shops, and support spaces.
• Allocate laboratory space, equipment, storage, and shared resources according to program priorities, safety requirements, security constraints, and capacity.
• Establish operating procedures, work-control practices, housekeeping standards, safety requirements, and equipment-use policies.
• Manage procurement, installation, maintenance, repair, calibration, certification, and retirement of laboratory equipment, tooling, fixtures, computers, and consumables.
• Coordinate facility repairs and improvements with facilities personnel, IT, contractors, security, information-assurance, and safety teams.
• Support hardware integration, qualification testing, field-test preparation, production transition, sustainment, laboratory training, budgets, suppliers, and service providers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering technology, facilities management, laboratory management, operations, or a related technical field; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• At least five years of experience managing engineering laboratories, test facilities, research facilities, manufacturing-support areas, or comparable technical environments.
• Experience with laboratory equipment, asset inventories, calibration programs, maintenance activities, facility repairs, contractors, and service providers.
• Experience supporting hardware development, testing, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or research organizations.
• Strong organizational, prioritization, problem-solving, and communication skills, with proficiency in Microsoft Office or comparable tools.
• Ability to work full-time on-site and obtain and maintain the U.S. security clearance required for assigned laboratory responsibilities.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in engineering or business, active U.S. security clearance, or facility-management, project-management, or comparable professional certification.
• Experience with classified and unclassified laboratories, NISPOM, controlled access, security inspections, export controls, and Facility Security Officer coordination.
• Experience supporting RF, electronics, mechanical, environmental, propulsion, robotics, or flight-test laboratories, including machine-shop operations.
• Experience with laboratory networking, isolated test networks, instrumentation, electrical distribution, grounding, HVAC, cooling, compressed gases, backup power, capital equipment, budgets, or facility projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits fully paid by the company.
• 401(k) with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay, plus FSA, HSA, and life insurance.
• Unlimited PTO, free daily lunch, casual dress code, and no-meeting Fridays.
• Competitive base salary, pre-IPO stock options, relocation assistance, and planned annual bonuses.
• Growing organization with approximately 350 employees across five global offices.