Lead Project Engineer (Defense Tech)

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Onsite role with 10–20% travel to customer and supplier sites.

Company

hirify.global develops defense technology solutions connecting space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains for national security customers.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership and day-to-day engineering execution for Spitfire and LRASM/JASSM programs.
• Integrate engineering scope, technical performance, cost, schedule, risk, and customer commitments within the program baseline.
• Serve as the engineering focal point across program management, engineering functions, integrated product teams, operations, quality, supply chain, and line management.
• Maintain engineering execution plans covering staffing, schedules, deliverables, risks, dependencies, and recovery actions, and report status to program leadership and customers.
• Drive technical issue resolution, root-cause analysis, corrective action, risk mitigation, configuration-controlled decisions, and engineering performance metrics.
• Lead engineering and program reviews, integration, verification, production-readiness, qualification, acceptance, and flight-readiness activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 9 years of relevant experience; or a graduate degree and at least 7 years of related experience; or, in lieu of a degree, at least 13 years of related experience.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project engineering, systems engineering, and integrated product development for complex hardware and software programs.
• Ability to translate program objectives into executable engineering plans and align cross-functional teams to the technical baseline.
• Experience managing technical execution through development, integration, verification, production, delivery, and sustainment phases.
• Working expertise in Earned Value Management, engineering cost and schedule estimation, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Experience coordinating engineering functions with manufacturing or operations, quality, supply chain, and program controls.
• Experience communicating with government and industry customers and presenting technical status, risks, and decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Availability to travel 10–20% of the time to customer and supplier sites.

Nice to have

• Graduate degree in an engineering or technical discipline.
• Active DoD security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain one.
• Experience with DoD missile, weapon-system, or similarly complex defense programs; LRASM/JASSM RFE experience and/or A3M/PTW experience is preferred.
• Experience with requirements management, configuration management, technical baseline control, systems integration, verification planning, and risk or opportunity management.
• Experience leading engineering execution in a production or rate-readiness environment, including supplier coordination and nonconformance or corrective-action closure.
• Proficiency with engineering planning and execution tools such as IMS, EVM systems, requirements-management tools, and configuration-management tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, sound technical judgment, and ability to lead through influence across a matrixed organization.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive and engaging environment focused on professional growth and work-life success.
• Shared commitment to customer missions, communities, values, and excellence.
• 9/80 schedule: work 9 of every 14 days for 80 hours, with every other Friday off.
• Employment includes equal-opportunity protections, background checks, drug testing where permitted, and E-Verify participation.