Staff Quality Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States; occasional night shifts, weekend work, and travel may be required. Successful candidates must clear a background check administered by the US government for on-site work at a government partner location.

Hiring range: $133,000–$199,000 USD per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops rockets, launch systems, and manufacturing capabilities, including the Terran R vehicle for delivering customer payloads to orbit.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for quality engineering across Test and Launch, including project goals, priorities, risk-based approaches, and completion criteria.
• Improve in-process build verification, issue ticket workflows, as-built verification, and non-conformance management.
• Develop and maintain quality processes, work instructions, corrective action strategies, and standardized rework and repair documentation.
• Partner with the AS9100 Quality Management System team to develop and maintain policies, procedures, and quality standards.
• Lead cross-functional resolution of complex quality issues with Test and Launch, Manufacturing, Hardware Responsible Engineering, and other technical organizations.
• Analyze quality data and recurring non-conformances, communicate risks and recommendations, and mentor quality engineers and cross-functional partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related STEM field.
• 10+ years of experience in quality engineering, quality management, manufacturing quality, or a related engineering discipline.
• Ability to apply engineering principles and quality methodologies to analyze complex technical issues, evaluate product and process risks, and develop corrective and preventive actions.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional projects from problem definition through implementation and sustained results, including setting priorities, managing technical risk, and driving execution across multiple teams.
• Ability to influence technical and operational decisions without direct authority and build alignment across engineering, manufacturing, test, launch, and quality organizations.
• Strong understanding of quality systems, manufacturing processes, and product lifecycle considerations, with the ability to identify systemic issues and develop scalable solutions.
• Ability to communicate technical findings, quality risks, recommendations, and program-level impacts to engineers, technical leaders, and management.
• Experience mentoring engineers, influencing best practices, and raising technical and operational quality standards.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with shifting priorities and incomplete information.
• Ability to support occasional night shifts and weekend work and to travel as required by Test and Launch operations.

Nice to have

• Technical quality leadership or subject matter expertise in aerospace, manufacturing, launch, or complex assembly environments.
• Advanced knowledge of AS9100, ISO 9001, NASA quality standards, or comparable regulated quality systems.
• Experience developing quality strategies, processes, and standards across multiple teams, programs, or manufacturing environments.
• Experience with FMEA, APQP, SPC, PPV, DFM, or similar quality and product development methods.
• Experience leading root cause investigations and corrective or preventive action efforts for complex or systemic issues.
• Experience establishing quality metrics, dashboards, or performance indicators and using data for program-level decisions and continuous improvement.
• Experience using PLM, MES, ERP, or QMS systems for quality workflows, data analysis, issue documentation, and risk-based escalation decisions.
• Experience mentoring or providing technical leadership to engineers and cross-functional teams.
• Experience developing or improving inspection, verification, acceptance, or non-conformance processes for complex hardware.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on Terran R and launch operations spanning stages, payloads, ground systems, launch, landing, and refurbishment.
• Autonomy, ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and opportunities to shape the product, processes, and organization.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave, parental leave, and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Equal opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodation support.