Senior Staff Engineer, Weapons Integration - Ranger

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous aircraft and mission systems for aerospace and defense applications.

What you will do

• Own mission system architecture, requirements allocation, integration strategy, performance budgets, interface definitions, and verification criteria across weapons, payloads, avionics, communications, data storage, and supporting aircraft systems.
• Lead system-of-systems analyses and technical trade studies balancing performance, latency, bandwidth, storage, reliability, power, cost, and schedule.
• Guide integration and verification from laboratory and hardware-in-the-loop testing through flight test and fielding.
• Partner with safety, airworthiness, and certification teams on MIL standards, DO-178C, DO-254, and related compliance objectives.
• Lead technical reviews and readiness assessments, resolve integration issues and anomalies, and align engineering teams, program leadership, customers, and suppliers.
• Mentor engineers and establish practices for requirements quality, interface management, configuration control, and verification.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, electrical, computer, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant aerospace or defense experience, including at least 5 years developing and integrating weapons or complex aircraft mission systems.
• Experience translating operational needs into requirements, performance budgets, interface definitions, and hardware and software specifications.
• Strong knowledge of systems engineering, architecture trade studies, requirements decomposition, configuration control, technical risk management, and verification and validation.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and supplier engineering activities from architecture definition through integration, testing, and fielding.
• Active U.S. Secret security clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance required.

Nice to have

• Master’s or PhD in aerospace, systems, or electrical engineering.
• Hands-on flight-test operations and mission-system validation experience.
• Experience integrating advanced sensors, autonomy, AI-enabled payloads, or guided weapons.
• Experience with model-based systems engineering and SysML tools.
• Active DoD Top Secret clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Work alongside engineering teams, program leadership, customers, partners, and suppliers.
• Contribute to autonomous aircraft development from concept through integration, flight testing, and fielding.
• Operate in a safety-, airworthiness-, certification-, and mission-performance-focused environment.