Senior Aerospace Engineer (Space Systems)

Location: Los Angeles Air Force Base, El Segundo, California, United States; in person/hybrid and not remote

Salary: $130,000+ annually, depending on experience, certifications, and qualifications.

Company

hirify.global provides professional services and aerospace engineering support for U.S. government and defense programs.

What you will do

• Provide senior-level systems engineering and technical advisory support across the full acquisition lifecycle.
• Develop, decompose, validate, verify, and manage requirements, technical baselines, interfaces, and configuration control.
• Integrate space, ground, launch, communications, and mission-support segments for missile warning, missile tracking, missile defense, and battlespace awareness systems.
• Apply Model-Based Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, and mission-thread analysis to architecture and integration activities.
• Evaluate system performance, technical risks, dependencies, readiness, anomalies, contractor deliverables, and corrective actions.
• Support launch integration, early orbit operations, on-orbit checkout, operational readiness, sustainment, program reviews, and executive-level technical reporting.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance are required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 15 years of relevant aerospace, space systems, defense acquisition, or systems engineering experience.
• Experience supporting Department of Defense or Space Force acquisition programs and working with space, missile, satellite, ground, or mission operations systems.
• Experience with requirements management, technical baseline management, systems integration, verification and validation, risk management, and the DoD acquisition lifecycle.
• Strong technical writing, briefing, coordination, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.

Nice to have

• Supervisory or team-lead experience, including mentoring and leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Master’s degree in a relevant engineering or technical field.
• Experience with SSC, Missile Warning, OPIR, SBIRS, FORGE, launch integration, on-orbit operations, ground segment integration, sensor fusion, or TCPED processes.
• Experience with MBSE, Digital Engineering, Agile development, DevSecOps, model-based mission assurance, and relevant defense and space safety standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time professional services role supporting Space Systems Command and the Space Sensing Directorate.
• Work with government, contractor, operational, senior leadership, intelligence, defense, and industry stakeholders.
• Occasional travel may be required, approximately 10%.
• Opportunity to mentor junior engineers and support cross-functional engineering teams.