Staff Mechanical Engineer (Spacecraft)

Location: Westminster, Colorado, United States; on-site. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, conditional residents, asylees, refugees, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Salary: $133,000–$161,000 per year

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead a mechanical engineering team responsible for spacecraft, subsystems, and mechanical interfaces through the full development lifecycle.
• Deliver mechanical designs from requirements definition and architecture trades through analysis, manufacturing, assembly, testing, qualification, and in-orbit support.
• Develop spacecraft structures, mechanisms, electronics packaging, thermal architectures, and deployable or actuated systems.
• Coordinate mechanical interfaces with GNC, EPS, CDH, Payload, RF, Systems, and AI&T teams.
• Present engineering design reviews to customers and executives and contribute to proposal writing.

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• At least 9 years of experience designing communications satellite structures and mechanisms across multiple programs.
• At least 5 years of technical team leadership experience, including ownership of spacecraft-level mechanical development cycles and contributions to multiple flight missions.
• Strong experience with mechanics of materials, structural and thermal analysis review, architectural trade studies, FEA and CAD tools such as SolidWorks Simulation, Ansys, or Nastran.
• Expertise in CNC manufacturing, GD&T, composite sandwich panels, spacecraft primary and secondary structures, and design for manufacturing, assembly, testing, and reliability.
• Hands-on experience with spacecraft AI&T and environmental test campaigns including vibration, shock, and TVAC, including recovery from structural or mechanism failures.

Nice to have

• Experience with LEO, GEO, and beyond, ranging from CubeSats and SmallSats to large GEO satellites.
• Python or other scripting experience.
• Experience with multiple spacecraft structural and mechanical architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, interactive, autonomous, and cross-functional engineering environment.
• Full-time employment with company stock options.
• Health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement benefits.