Senior Staff Mechanical Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Tempe, Arizona, or Carlsbad, California; U.S. Citizenship required. The stated salary range also includes specific ranges for San Jose, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the New York City metropolitan area.

Salary: $180,500–$285,000 annually. For specific locations in San Jose, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the New York City metropolitan area: $224,500–$336,500 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops connectivity solutions for consumers, businesses, governments, and military customers worldwide.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership for satellite structures, mechanisms, electronics packaging, and complex deployable systems.
• Lead mechanical subsystem ownership from concept development through qualification, production, launch integration, and on-orbit support.
• Direct structural, thermal, dynamic, vibration, shock, and environmental analyses for flight hardware.
• Establish engineering requirements, specifications, standards, procedures, and qualification strategies.
• Lead hardware development, integration, testing, design reviews, and anomaly or root-cause investigations.
• Collaborate with systems, thermal, electrical, manufacturing, reliability, and supply chain teams while mentoring engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Typically 12+ years of mechanical engineering experience with successful spaceflight hardware development.
• Technical leadership experience for major spacecraft, satellite, launch vehicle, or advanced aerospace mechanical subsystems.
• Advanced CAD experience with platforms such as Creo, SolidWorks, or NX, and engineering analysis experience with ANSYS, Nastran, Simcenter, or Thermal Desktop.
• Expertise in structural, thermal, dynamic, environmental, vibration, shock, thermal vacuum, and thermal cycling qualification.
• U.S. Citizenship required.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with small satellites, broadband constellations, spacecraft buses, composite structures, lightweight designs, or deployable mechanisms.
• Knowledge of launch vehicle interfaces, payload integration, spaceport operations, DFM/DFA, PLM systems, and spaceflight standards.
• Experience directing suppliers, contract manufacturers, root-cause investigations, corrective action boards, and engineering mentorship programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on next-generation satellite platforms and complex spaceflight applications.
• Collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and executive program leadership.
• Medical, financial, and other benefits may be provided depending on the position.
• Additional cash or stock incentives may be available.
• Equal opportunity workplace with accommodation support for applicants with disabilities.