Supply Chain Engineering Internship (Summer 2027)

Location: El Segundo, California; onsite five days a week. The role requires travel of up to 25% to supplier facilities, hirify.global factories, and customer sites.

Hourly pay: $30–$50 USD

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures critical avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components and subsystems for aerospace, defense, and industrial platforms.

What you will do

• Own assigned build-to-print contracts from award through first article and rate production.
• Convert customer technical data packages and contract requirements into requirements matrices and coordinate fulfillment across engineering, procurement, production, and suppliers.
• Build and manage schedules covering long-lead procurement, tooling, qualification, first article, and delivery milestones.
• Resolve supplier-caused defects through containment, material review, disposition, root cause analysis, and corrective action verification.
• Qualify and develop suppliers through capability assessments, quality-system reviews, onsite audits, AS9102 first article inspections, and improvement plans.
• Analyze supplier performance and supply chain risks, including capacity constraints, single-source exposure, long lead times, and obsolescence.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or another STEM discipline.
• At least 2 years of professional or internship experience in quality, manufacturing, process, or supply chain engineering.
• Ability to read engineering drawings, including GD&T, and interpret military and aerospace specifications.
• Experience owning a project or program with an external commitment, including building schedules and driving cross-functional execution.
• Ability to communicate directly with customers and suppliers about technical, quality, and schedule commitments.
• Must be a U.S. person under ITAR requirements, including U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or protected person status.

Nice to have

• Experience in aerospace, defense, or another regulated hardware industry.
• Technical program management, product ownership, or new product introduction experience.
• Experience with machined parts, avionics and PCBAs, or injection molding.
• AS9100 or comparable quality-management-system experience, supplier approval, or first article processes.
• Experience managing schedules in formal tools and reporting status to leadership or external customers.

Culture & Benefits

• Work directly with engineering, quality, production, procurement, suppliers, and customers.
• Work extended hours when necessary to support production and resolve critical issues.
• Valid driver’s license required for supplier, factory, and customer-site travel.
• Focus on hardware ownership, measurable supplier improvement, and reliable customer delivery.