Mission Operations Engineer II (Spaceflight)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States; onsite position. Ability to travel up to 20% and support 24/7 operations, overtime, or weekends during critical mission phases.

Salary: $112,000–$159,000 USD annually in California.

Company

hirify.global develops commercial space stations, spacecraft, satellite products, and space infrastructure for human spaceflight, research, manufacturing, and government and private customers.

What you will do

• Develop technical training materials for astronaut crew members, private spaceflight customers, and Haven-1 flight controllers.
• Plan and execute training simulations, including scenario construction, scripting, automation, testing, troubleshooting, and certification events.
• Develop crew operations, crew-facing procedures, human-in-the-loop testing processes, interfaces, displays, and hazard controls for safety-critical systems.
• Support pre-flight testing, checkouts, readiness campaigns, spacecraft operations, and integration of customer payload and research requirements into mission concepts of operations.
• Train, certify, and operate from Mission Control during uncrewed commissioning, uncrewed and crewed on-orbit operations, anomaly resolution, and spacecraft de-orbit.
• Analyze vehicle telemetry and recommend improvements to mission operations, training systems, software, and ground-system architecture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, software, or another engineering discipline.
• At least 1 year of experience in human factors engineering, human systems integration, human-in-the-loop testing, user research, or usability testing.
• Ability to work cross-functionally, communicate technical information clearly, and think critically in high-stress, rapidly changing situations.
• Strong technical writing, communication, presentation development, and delivery skills.
• Willingness to support 24/7 operations during mission-critical phases and to work overtime or weekends when needed.
• Must be a U.S. person or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing under U.S. export control requirements.

Nice to have

• Human spaceflight mission operations or crew and flight control training experience.
• Experience with human-in-the-loop testing, complex real-time operations, console operations, or aerospace training development.
• Spacecraft systems knowledge covering avionics, propulsion, attitude control, communications, orbital mechanics, life support, thermal, and power systems.
• Knowledge of space-to-ground communication systems and ground systems.
• Experience with Git, C++, Golang, Markdown, JavaScript, React, MATLAB, Python, Octave, software architecture, databases, cloud systems, command-line interfaces, or scripting.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time exempt employment with company equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Paid time off, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and access to a 401(k) plan.
• ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare, and other discounts and perks.
• Onsite food benefits including snacks, coffee, drinks, dinner meals, and subsidized lunch.