Staff Design Reliability Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States; onsite

Salary: $137,000–$195,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global develops commercial space stations, spacecraft, satellite products, and space infrastructure for human presence, research, manufacturing, and government and private customers.

What you will do

• Lead technical and milestone design reviews for artificial-gravity, human-rated space station systems.
• Oversee qualification and test completeness for flight systems and support disciplined hardware test campaigns.
• Evaluate design and operational changes, identify risks early, and protect technical integrity as systems evolve.
• Develop and maintain engineering standards, design guides, review frameworks, reliability checklists, and templates.
• Track design maturity and compliance across station and vehicle architectures, building tools and automation for design trade-offs and risk analysis.
• Partner with configuration, change management, and software teams to keep flight hardware updates, system data, and design decisions controlled and accessible.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in responsible engineering, design ownership, systems integration, test engineering, or reliability-focused development.
• Experience conducting design reviews, qualification reviews, or major change assessments.
• Strong communication, collaboration, diplomacy, emotional intelligence, and technical influence skills.
• Experience with complex aerospace, mission-critical, or safety-critical systems and hands-on hardware design, assembly, integration, or testing.
• Must be a U.S. person under U.S. export-control rules or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing.

Nice to have

• Experience in Responsible Engineering, Systems Engineering, Office of the Chief Engineer, or Reliability Engineering.
• Knowledge of fracture control, reliability methodologies, human-rated hardware standards, manufacturing processes, materials selection, and hardware qualification.
• Experience creating engineering standards, review templates, or technical guidance frameworks.
• Strong scripting and data analysis skills with Python, MATLAB, or Excel, plus familiarity with visualization tools such as Tableau.
• Systems-level intuition and the ability to anticipate and articulate risks early.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time exempt position with company equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Paid time off, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and access to a 401(k) plan.
• Additional benefits include ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare, discounts, subsidized meals, snacks, drinks, coffee, and onsite barista service.
• Willingness to work overtime or weekends is required when supporting critical mission milestones.