Sr. Project Engineer – Command & Data Handling (Aerospace)

Location: Irvine, California, United States. Onsite role in a professional office and manufacturing environment.

Salary: $130,000–$175,000 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global manufactures satellite products and provides end-to-end satellite solutions for aerospace, defense, civil, and commercial missions.

What you will do

• Coordinate engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program management activities for command and data handling module development.
• Break down engineering work packages, including durations, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Lead module development planning and execution against technical requirements, budgets, and schedules.
• Identify risks, drive structured problem-solving and root-cause investigations, and develop mitigation plans.
• Prepare status reports, risk assessments, dashboards, burn-down charts, and escalation briefings for engineering and program leadership.
• Organize and present PDR, CDR, MRR, TRR, design, and customer reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 5 years of project or program management experience in hardware development and production environments.
• Understanding of hardware development lifecycles, manufacturing release processes, configuration-controlled releases, build preparation, tooling, test equipment, and production transition.
• Ability to lead without formal authority, drive accountability, and manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
• Experience with MS Project, Jira, Confluence, and high-quality technical presentations.
• Must be a U.S. person or lawful permanent resident in compliance with U.S. government space technology export regulations.

Nice to have

• Experience with satellite bus, payload, avionics, or aircraft development.
• Familiarity with FPGA, microprocessors, and high-reliability hardware.
• Knowledge of EVMS, risk management, configuration control, DFMEA, PFMEA, DFM/DFA, control plans, process flows, APQP, or PPAP.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) matching and flexible time off.
• Paid parental leave and covered life insurance.
• Education and tuition reimbursement.
• Professional office environment within a satellite manufacturing company.