Senior Engineer, Reliability (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in Seattle, Washington; San Diego, California; or Dallas, Texas

Company

hirify.global develops aircraft systems and aerospace platforms, with this role supporting the X-BAT Engineering division.

What you will do

• Develop aircraft-level reliability requirements, objectives, plans, and reliability budgets.
• Perform reliability predictions, allocations, trade studies, sensitivity analyses, and design assessments.
• Conduct FMEA/FMECA, Fault Tree, Reliability Block Diagram, Weibull, and FRACAS analyses.
• Analyze ground-test, flight-test, supplier, maintenance, and field-performance data to identify reliability trends.
• Support system safety assessments, reliability demonstrations, growth testing, and technical reviews.
• Communicate reliability risks, performance, budgets, and corrective actions to customers and engineering leadership while mentoring junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in reliability, systems, aerospace, mechanical, electrical engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 5 years of related experience and direct experience with aircraft development, integration, testing, sustainment, or operations.
• Experience managing reliability budgets and applying FMEA/FMECA, FTA, RBD, Weibull analysis, reliability predictions, and FRACAS.
• Familiarity with MTBF, MTBCF, failure rate, mission reliability, and availability metrics.
• Experience with reliability analysis tools such as ReliaSoft, Windchill Quality Solutions, Isograph, or RAM Commander.
• Ability to obtain and maintain any security clearance required for the program.

Nice to have

• Experience with military aircraft, unmanned aircraft, or defense aerospace platforms.
• Familiarity with MIL-HDBK-217, NPRD, EPRD, RIAC 217Plus, or equivalent methods.
• Experience integrating reliability with system safety, maintainability, logistics, and availability analyses.
• Knowledge of Reliability-Centered Maintenance, condition-based maintenance, or Model-Based Systems Engineering.
• Certified Reliability Engineer credentials or an active U.S. security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee position.
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration with engineering teams, suppliers, customers, and program leadership.
• Opportunity to improve organizational reliability processes, tools, and standards.