Program Field Engineering Lead (SATCOM/RF)

Location: Remote within the United States, supporting Virginia and Duluth, Georgia locations; up to 30% travel required.

Salary: $141,500–$224,000 annually. For specific locations in San Jose, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the New York City metropolitan area: $176,000–$264,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops and operates satellite communications, RF infrastructure, and connectivity systems for consumer, business, government, and military customers.

What you will do

• Lead geographically dispersed field engineers, technicians, and subcontractors supporting domestic and international customer sites.
• Direct installation, integration, testing, certification, sustainment, modernization, commissioning, and acceptance activities for SATCOM, RF, antenna, networking, and ground systems.
• Manage organization-level and depot-level maintenance, logistics support, corrective actions, operational readiness, and system availability.
• Resolve complex technical issues, lead root-cause investigations, and provide technical leadership during outages and mission-impacting events.
• Coordinate engineering, logistics, supply chain, cybersecurity, software, networking, and operations organizations.
• Support workforce planning, subcontractor performance, technical documentation, proposals, Statements of Work, estimates, risk mitigation, and executive reporting.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience with field engineering, SATCOM, RF systems, telecom infrastructure, and ground antenna sustainment.
• Experience leading engineering teams and field operations for complex technical programs and government customers.
• Experience with SATCOM and RF systems, antenna systems, networking infrastructure, installation, integration, testing, sustainment, and modernization.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or equivalent experience.
• U.S. citizenship and an active DoD TS/SCI security clearance are required.
• Ability to travel up to 30% is required.

Nice to have

• Experience in secure DoD and Intelligence Community environments, including COMSEC.
• Experience with contested, austere, remote, or mission-critical communications environments.
• Knowledge of lifecycle sustainment, procurement, logistics, reliability improvement, and operational readiness.
• Experience leading modernization, technology refresh, verification, validation, acceptance testing, and certification programs.
• Experience developing workforce strategies and mentoring engineers, technicians, and emerging leaders.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-focused work supporting critical government communications systems.
• Equal opportunity environment focused on inclusion and positive impact.
• Medical, financial, wellness, and other benefits may be included in the compensation package.
• Additional cash or stock incentives may be available depending on the position.