Staff Build Reliability Engineer, Clean Line

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Salary: $143,000–$215,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures rockets, including the Terran R launch vehicle, to deliver customer payloads to orbit.

What you will do

• Serve as the company-wide technical authority for precision cleaning, fluid-system cleanliness, contamination control, passivation, and related special processes.
• Establish and own process-control frameworks covering qualification, equipment validation, statistical process control, inspections, audits, and governance.
• Develop, industrialize, and scale precision clean-line capabilities from early development through rate production, including process architecture, equipment selection, make-versus-buy decisions, factory integration, and production readiness.
• Define engineering specifications, cleanliness acceptance criteria, inspection methods, and technician training and certification standards across manufacturing, assembly, integration, testing, and launch.
• Lead root-cause investigations, corrective actions, and technical risk-reduction efforts for cleanliness, contamination, and special-process challenges.
• Influence engineering and manufacturing decisions, identify build-reliability risks, and mentor engineers and technicians.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, plus 8+ years of progressive process-engineering experience in aerospace, high-reliability manufacturing, or a similarly complex production environment.
• 5+ years of direct experience developing, owning, or scaling precision cleaning, fluid-system cleaning, clean-line, contamination-control, or comparable aerospace special processes.
• Deep expertise in special-process control, including process qualification, validation, contamination prevention, statistical process control, inspection methodology, process capability, and continuous improvement.
• Experience establishing and enforcing technical standards, cleanliness requirements, and quality controls across multiple stages of hardware manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing.
• Ability to independently resolve complex cross-functional technical challenges, lead failure investigations, identify systemic quality risks, and implement corrective actions that improve hardware reliability and manufacturing consistency.
• Strong technical leadership and communication skills, including influencing engineering and manufacturing decisions, establishing accountability across teams, and challenging processes or decisions when necessary to protect hardware quality and mission success.

Nice to have

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience establishing precision-cleaning, contamination-control, or special-process capabilities for propulsion systems, fluid systems, or flight hardware.
• Familiarity with IEST-STD-CC1246 or other aerospace cleanliness, contamination-control, and quality standards.
• Experience developing and implementing enterprise-wide special-process governance, qualification, or certification programs.
• Experience supporting hardware cleanliness and contamination-control requirements from component manufacturing through vehicle assembly, integration, testing, and launch operations.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on rocket, factory, and business development with autonomy, ownership, and cross-functional impact.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave, plus parental leave.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Commitment to equal opportunity, diversity, fairness, and reasonable workplace accommodations.