Lead Manufacturing Engineer - Avionics & Test (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States; based at hirify.global Headquarters. The position involves production-area work, including prolonged sitting, standing, walking, computer work, and occasional exposure to moderate noise, dust, and fumes.

Base Salary: $124,000–$170,000 USD annually. Total Compensation, including equity: $175,000–$205,000 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global is an end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, satellites, and critical subsystems for missions extending from Earth to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

What you will do

• Develop, implement, and sustain manufacturing processes for avionics components and assemblies across programs.
• Coach, mentor, review, and develop engineers; interview and hire personnel for new roles.
• Set team goals and metrics, lead meetings, and drive continuous improvement projects.
• Contribute as a subject-matter expert to design reviews covering design for manufacture, design for test, productivity, supplier capability, and quality control.
• Lead product and revision introductions, value-stream mapping, method-of-manufacture planning, cell design, factory layouts, equipment selection, FAT, SAT, and production commissioning.
• Lead capital and facilities projects, problem containment, structured root-cause and corrective-action investigations, and lean improvement using tools such as 5S.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, preferably electrical, aerospace, manufacturing, or mechanical engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Personnel leadership experience.
• Strong working knowledge of EEE piece parts, PCB, PCBA, electromechanical assembly, tooling, testing, and quality techniques.
• Extensive experience applying electronic circuits, design principles, and manufacturing techniques to solve component issues in a fast-paced environment.
• For candidates seeking to work in U.S. offices, eligibility to comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including ITAR, is required: U.S. citizenship, lawful U.S. permanent residence, refugee or asylum status, or eligibility to obtain the required authorizations.

Nice to have

• Advanced engineering degree, preferably electrical, aerospace, manufacturing, or mechanical engineering.
• 8+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with environmental or production acceptance testing, including vibration, shock, thermal, and vacuum testing.
• Understanding of instrumentation, interfaces, sensors, power supplies, oscilloscopes, serial devices, switch topologies, accelerometers, thermocouples, RTDs, and 4–20 mA sensors.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting a production line or build area.
• Experience transitioning products from design to production within a cross-functional, fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Experience with DFMEA, PFMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, Pareto analysis, root-cause analysis, and corrective action.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with paid vacation and sick time, 11 paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; HMO, PPO, and zero-cost HDHP options; HSA contributions; flexible spending and dependent-care accounts.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, disability and life insurance, employee stock purchase program with a 15% discount, and company equity.
• Additional benefits include subsidized EV charging, onsite fitness centers where available, discounted gym memberships, complimentary snacks and beverages, and employee discounts.
• Work involves fast-paced hardware production, tight deadlines, teamwork, continuous improvement, and occasional exposure to production-area noise, dust, and fumes.