Senior Controls & Facility Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Full-time, on-site in Mountain View, California, United States, at NASA Ames Research Center. Travel as needed. Federal background check required.

Salary: $170,000–$220,000 per year

Company

hirify.global delivers engineering and technical support for government and industry programs, including aerospace test facilities and complex engineering systems.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership and operational support for UPWT, including controls engineering, facility troubleshooting, test-section systems, and daily operations.
• Lead modernization projects involving control-system replacement, safety-system upgrades, mechanical and electrical refurbishment, facility automation, and tunnel-performance improvements.
• Develop requirements and manage verification, validation, hazard remediation, interfaces, and technical risks.
• Perform detailed design, analysis, modeling, commissioning, and integrated systems testing across mechanical, structural, electrical, and controls domains.
• Prepare technical documentation, test procedures, project reports, white papers, and trade studies for funding and engineering decisions.

Requirements

• 20+ years of relevant experience in controls engineering, wind-tunnel operations, instrumentation, complex facility management, or large-scale mechanical and electrical systems.
• Expertise in wind-tunnel control logic, including pressure control, isolation systems, HWSS, IGV control, and supervisory state-flow systems.
• Mechanical or electrical engineering background with a BS or MS degree from an accredited institution.
• Proficiency with MATLAB/Simulink, MATRIXx/SystemBuild, Ovation, AutoCAD, and failure-analysis methodologies.
• Project engineering and project-management experience on multimillion-dollar government or industry programs.
• Strong communication, collaboration, stakeholder-management, and multidisciplinary engineering leadership skills.

Nice to have

• Professional Engineering license in California or an equivalent jurisdiction.
• Prior NASA Ames wind-tunnel or aeronautics test-facility experience.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site work supporting operational readiness and daily facility operations.
• Exposure to multimillion-dollar government engineering programs.
• Travel as needed for project and facility support.