Senior Controls & Facility Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, United States; full-time, on-site

Salary: $170,000–$220,000 per year

Company

hirify.global delivers engineering and technical support for government programs, including aeronautics and wind-tunnel facilities.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership and operational support for UPWT, including control systems engineering, facility troubleshooting, test-section systems, and daily operations.
• Lead modernization projects involving control-system replacement, safety-system upgrades, mechanical and electrical refurbishment, facility automation, and tunnel-performance improvements.
• Develop requirements, conduct verification and validation, remediate hazards, manage interfaces, and identify and mitigate risks.
• Perform detailed design, analysis, modeling, commissioning, and integrated systems testing across mechanical, structural, electrical, and controls domains.
• Prepare technical documentation, test procedures, project reports, white papers, and trade studies supporting engineering programs and funding justification.

Requirements

• 20+ years of relevant experience in controls engineering, wind-tunnel operations, instrumentation, complex facility management, or large-scale mechanical and electrical systems.
• Expertise in wind-tunnel control logic, including pressure control, isolation systems, HWSS, IGV control, and supervisory state-flow systems.
• BS or MS degree in mechanical or electrical engineering from an accredited institution.
• Experience with MATLAB/Simulink, MATRIXx/SystemBuild, Ovation, AutoCAD, and failure-analysis methodologies.
• Project engineering and project-management experience on multi-million-dollar government or industry engineering programs.
• Federal background check required. Strong communication, collaboration, stakeholder-management, and multidisciplinary leadership skills are required.

Nice to have

• Professional Engineering license in California or an equivalent jurisdiction.
• Prior NASA Ames wind-tunnel or aeronautics test-facility experience.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site engineering work at NASA Ames Research Center.
• Support for complex government engineering programs and multi-million-dollar facility projects.
• Travel as needed.