Manager, Environmental Control Systems & Thermal Engineering (R6306)

Location: On-site in Seattle, Washington, US

Company

hirify.global develops aircraft capabilities, including environmental control systems, thermal management, and associated fluid and heat-transfer hardware for the X-BAT and other Group 5 programs.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and develop engineers while setting priorities, ownership, staffing, and execution cadence.
• Direct environmental control systems and thermal architecture, trade studies, design reviews, and technical decisions.
• Guide requirements, verification, risk management, configuration control, and design release through flight-ready hardware.
• Resolve interfaces with structures, propulsion, avionics, EWIS, payloads, manufacturing, systems engineering, and test teams.
• Lead component, qualification, ground, and flight test planning, including anomaly resolution and corrective actions.
• Manage hardware specifications, statements of work, supplier reviews, prototype builds, and acceptance activities.

Requirements

• US citizenship and an active Secret or higher security clearance are required.
• 8+ years of experience in aerospace environmental control systems, thermal engineering, fluid systems, or comparable aircraft mechanical systems development.
• Direct experience managing and developing individual contributors.
• B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Deep knowledge of thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and aircraft thermal management.
• Experience guiding architecture, requirements, analysis, design, integration, and verification through hardware delivery.

Nice to have

• Experience with UAV, autonomous aircraft, fighter, tactical aircraft, Group 5, or other high-performance aerospace programs.
• Experience with thermal and fluid testing, instrumentation, data acquisition, model correlation, or flight-test troubleshooting.
• Experience with first-principles analysis, fluid-thermal network modeling, CFD, FloEFD, STAR-CCM+, Thermal Desktop, Amesim, or Flowmaster.
• Knowledge of MIL-STD-810, MIL-HDBK-516, RTCA DO-160, SAE AIR, or SAE ARP standards.
• Experience with aerospace suppliers, technical specifications, statements of work, prototype builds, or vehicle-level test setups.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-moving aircraft development environment with hands-on technical engagement.
• Emphasis on high technical standards, trust, accountability, and clear communication.
• Focus on developing engineers and delivering meaningful capability to operators quickly.