Sr Stage Development Engineer II, Vehicle Build (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States. The role requires travel to test and launch sites and may involve shifted schedules or weekend work during critical milestones.

Hiring range: $123,000–$198,000 USD annually, plus salary and equity-based total rewards.

Company

hirify.global develops Terran R, a reusable launch vehicle designed to deliver customer payloads to orbit.

What you will do

• Balance technical, cost, and schedule constraints while investigating scenarios and proposing vehicle development solutions.
• Own verification activities for vehicle integration, testing, and launch-site checkouts.
• Follow the vehicle through its lifecycle to maintain consistency in build quality and processes.
• Drive qualification, acceptance, and hotfire test campaigns by writing and reviewing objectives, matrices, and plans.
• Enable manufacturing scale-up by owning defined off-nominal work scopes.
• Collaborate across engineering and manufacturing functions on the design, build, test, flight, recovery, and reuse of Terran R.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field.
• 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Technical aptitude and basic understanding of mechanical, fluids, and avionics disciplines.
• Ability to work in Long Beach, California, and travel to test and launch sites.

Nice to have

• Graduate degree in engineering or a related field.
• Experience with aerospace ERP systems and technical planning.
• Experience designing, manufacturing, assembling, and testing complex aerospace systems.
• Ability to communicate complex technical problems clearly to broader audiences.
• Leadership or coordination experience in multidisciplinary engineering projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a high-impact systems engineering organization developing Terran R.
• Autonomy, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration across vehicle engineering, manufacturing, and other disciplines.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave, parental leave, and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation support.