Senior/Staff Supplier Reliability Engineer - Metallic Materials & Processes (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States; onsite. Full-time position with up to 50% travel, occasional evenings and/or weekends, and U.S. export-control eligibility required.

Salary: $123,000–$230,000 USD per year.

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures next-generation space stations, spacecraft, satellites, and other crewed space systems.

What you will do

• Evaluate and onboard suppliers through audits, assessments, and quality evaluations.
• Build supplier relationships, address quality issues, identify supply-chain risks, and implement improvements.
• Collaborate with design, manufacturing, and procurement teams on piece-part, assembly, and subsystem requirements, manufacturability reviews, sourcing, and supplier process assessments.
• Define supplier technical and quality requirements for NPI and manufacturing phases.
• Analyze supplier quality and delivery metrics, identify systemic gaps, and develop supplier improvement plans.
• Lead root-cause and corrective-action processes for escapes and contaminants, driving continuous improvement and cost reduction.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Materials Science, Metallurgical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of materials, process, or quality engineering experience with metal products in a production environment, including hands-on RCCA for material or process issues.
• Working knowledge of metallurgy, heat treatment, common metal defects, forging, extrusion, casting, welding, surface and finishing processes, or NDE.
• Experience reading and applying AMS, ASTM, and drawing-callout requirements.
• Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends for critical mission milestones.
• Ability to lift up to 25 lbs unassisted.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.
• The hired candidate must be a U.S. person under U.S. export-control regulations or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in Materials Science, Metallurgy, or Engineering.
• Proven ownership of RCCAs through verified closure and experience influencing suppliers to drive results.
• Hands-on failure analysis using fractography, metallography, and SEM/EDS.
• Knowledge of ISO 9000, AS9100, NADCAP, PPAP, APQP, and FAI.
• Familiarity with AMS-STD-2154, ASTM E2375, ASTM A388, ASTM E45, ASTM E112, AMS 2759, AMS 2750, AMS 2700, ASTM B912, MIL-A-8625, and AMS 2430.
• Experience with MSA, DOE, hypothesis testing, Cpk, 8D, fault tree analysis, Ishikawa, and Six Sigma.
• Experience with additive manufacturing, EB and fusion welding metallurgy, fracture mechanics, or damage tolerance.
• Experience with MES and PLM systems, Google Workspace, SQL, and Python.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, cross-functional matrix environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for conveying technical findings to all levels of hirify.global and the supplier base.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time exempt employment with company equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Paid time off, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• More than 20 days of vacation for exempt staff, with the option to cash out unused vacation annually.
• ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare, discounts, and other perks.
• Free snacks, coffee, drinks, dinner meals, an onsite barista, and subsidized lunch.