Senior Manager, Digital Engineering (Aerospace)

Location: Onsite in Denver, Colorado or Long Beach, California. Travel to other company sites may be required. U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residence is required under ITAR, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Base salary: $175,000–$255,000 in Denver or $185,000–$270,000 in Long Beach, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors for U.S. and allied space-security missions.

What you will do

• Build and own the digital thread platform connecting product data across PLM, requirements/ALM, MBSE, ERP, engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing.
• Write production code for core services, integrations, and initial applications while establishing architecture, engineering patterns, testing, and documentation standards.
• Hire, coach, and grow software engineers from early-career to staff level while progressively scaling the team.
• Define the platform roadmap, delivery cadence, workflow automation, and build-versus-buy strategy for engineering and business systems.
• Partner with engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, IT, Platform Engineering, and Cybersecurity on integrations, governance, access controls, and change management.
• Ensure observability, auditability, synchronization health, data quality, and compliance evidence for ITAR/CUI environments.

Requirements

• 5+ years managing software engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• 8+ years in software engineering or a related technical field, with substantial recent hands-on individual contributor experience.
• Current production coding proficiency in at least one modern language such as Go or Python.
• Experience shipping software platforms, enterprise applications, systems of record, integration programs, or workflow automation.
• Strong knowledge of cloud and enterprise technologies, APIs, integration patterns, data modeling, and consistency across systems of record.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Nice to have

• Experience in a startup, Series C–E, or high-growth environment and building a new team from the ground up.
• Experience migrating from an off-the-shelf enterprise system to in-house software.
• Familiarity with PLM, MBSE, requirements/ALM, ERP, MES, digital engineering, or digital thread initiatives.
• Background in aerospace, defense, hardware, or another regulated product-data-intensive environment.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, AWS, or a related cloud platform.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, high-stakes environment supporting national-security space operations.
• High autonomy, ownership of the Digital Engineering function, and direct access to leadership.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA/HRA options.
• Flexible time off or accrued PTO, paid holidays, parental leave, and sick leave.
• 401(k), fitness reimbursement, catered lunches for in-office employees, and equity participation.
• On-call and support rotation oversight, including occasional after-hours participation.