Senior Staff Assembly, Integration & Test (AIT) Engineer

Location: Westminster, Colorado, United States; on-site daily in the lab and cleanroom. Applicants must be eligible under U.S. Government Space Technology Export Regulations, including U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residence, qualifying protected status, or eligibility to obtain the required authorizations.

Salary: $184,000–$225,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms.

What you will do

• Define requirements, designs, and ongoing support for electrical ground support equipment used in satellite testing.
• Develop and execute assembly, integration, acceptance, qualification, and environmental test activities.
• Validate electrical interfaces between test equipment and flight hardware and troubleshoot integration issues.
• Lead test readiness reviews, anomaly reporting, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action implementation.
• Author test procedures, analyze and present test data, and support verification activities.
• Support satellite integration, launch operations, and on-orbit mission operations.

Requirements

• B.S. degree in aerospace, electrical, or a related engineering discipline.
• At least 12 years of experience, including significant spacecraft or related systems assembly, integration, and test operations.
• Experience across multiple stages of satellite and component/GSE development, from design for test through test operations and operational missions.
• Experience with requirements management, system design, integration, and test.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language, such as Python, and willingness to learn additional languages.
• Ability to work on-site daily in the laboratory and cleanroom and meet U.S. export-control eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

• RF communication systems test experience.
• EMI/EMC compatibility and mitigation test experience.
• Experience using COSMOS and Grafana.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, autonomous work in a dynamic, cross-functional engineering environment.
• Full-time employment with company stock options.
• Health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement benefits.
• Daily collaboration across satellite assembly, integration, test, and launch operations.