Sr. Manufacturing Engineer (EPS)

Location: Irvine, California, United States

Salary: $115,000–$155,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global manufactures satellite products and provides end-to-end satellite solutions for military, civil, and commercial aerospace and defense missions.

What you will do

• Develop and evolve manufacturing strategies, technology roadmaps, production procedures, and process flows for electrical power system components and modules.
• Design scalable production floor layouts, identify tooling and work-center capability needs, and establish production capabilities for flight hardware.
• Transition components and module assemblies from development and testing into production, leading production readiness reviews for full-rate manufacturing.
• Collaborate with design engineers, technicians, machine shop staff, quality teams, and external vendors to improve manufacturability, reliability, and sourceability.
• Create work instructions, quality plans, inspection requirements, and other documentation needed to manufacture hardware at scale.
• Analyze manufacturing and test discrepancies, support space hardware testing, troubleshoot processes, and drive cost and productivity improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, aerospace engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent professional experience may be considered.
• At least five years of manufacturing engineering experience in a high-reliability manufacturing environment, including at least one year in electronics, electrical hardware, or space hardware development and production.
• Experience with process development, facility and line layouts, PFMEA, error-proofing, lean manufacturing, automation, and design for manufacturability, assembly, and reliability.
• Experience with AutoCAD or SolidWorks; familiarity with Power BI, SQL, or JMP is desirable.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, first-principles thinking, communication skills, and experience working with technicians, engineers, managers, and vendors.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security clearance are required.

Nice to have

• Experience with PLCs, robots, machine vision, propulsion systems, or Aegis.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) match and flexible time off.
• Company-paid life insurance and competitive paid parental leave.
• Education reimbursement and employee referral benefits.
• Professional office environment within a satellite manufacturing operation; the role includes regular sitting, standing, walking, bending, reaching, and occasional lifting of up to 25 pounds.