Mission Assurance Director - Lunar (Aerospace)

Location: Space Coast, Florida, United States

Base pay ranges stated for other sites: $160,618–$224,864.85 for Colorado applicants and $169,624–$237,473.25 for Washington applicants; other site ranges may differ.

Company

hirify.global develops reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems, including the crewed lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis program.

What you will do

• Lead independent mission assurance for the Human Landing System across design, qualification, production, integration, testing, launch, and crewed lunar operations.
• Define and monitor mission assurance specifications, processes, risk thresholds, and performance metrics.
• Coordinate system safety, reliability, quality, manufacturing, testing, and mission assurance activities across a matrixed organization.
• Represent mission assurance at program, design, test, material, and flight readiness reviews.
• Review hazard, reliability, FMEA, failure, defect, anomaly, and mishap analyses, ensuring mitigations and corrective actions are verified and closed.
• Interface with NASA on mission assurance requirements, compliance, and human-rating certification.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 15+ years of experience in mission assurance, quality, reliability, or product integrity for complex hardware.
• Human spaceflight or launch vehicle certification experience, including familiarity with human-rating requirements and processes.
• Strong experience with risk management, hazard analysis, FMEA, reliability analysis, and root cause analysis.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, independent judgment, risk-threshold development, and organizational change leadership.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, refugee, or asylee under export-control regulations.

Nice to have

• Direct NASA interface experience and experience on NASA crewed or human-rated programs.
• Launch vehicle, ground systems, or launch operations experience.
• Continuous Improvement, Lean, or Six Sigma experience.
• Working knowledge of AS9100 or an equivalent quality standard, including audit and conformance experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety, collaboration, inclusion, and structured continuous improvement are emphasized.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, and paid parental leave.
• 401(k) with company matching of up to 5% and an Education Support Program.
• Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
• Up to four weeks of paid time off and up to 14 company-paid holidays.