Design Reliability Engineering Manager (Aerospace)

Location: Hybrid in Hawthorne, California, United States

Salary: $175,000–$220,000 per year

Company

hirify.global designs and builds lunar rovers, power systems, and data networks for sustained operations on the Moon. The role supports CLV-1, a human-capable lunar rover for Artemis IV.

What you will do

• Lead the end-to-end reliability program across avionics, mechanisms, power, thermal, and structures for current and future rover programs.
• Build and manage a reliability and design assurance engineering team, including hiring priorities, technical standards, and growth paths.
• Architect design standards, test methodologies, design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new hardware.
• Own change and risk reviews, translate technical risk and impact into actionable decisions, and ensure risks are mitigated.
• Flow reliability requirements to hardware, including margins, screening levels, and derating guidelines.
• Develop analysis tools, review templates, checklists, and design guides; mentor engineers and drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics-related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in reliability, design assurance, or systems engineering for spaceflight, aerospace, or other high-consequence hardware, including defense, nuclear, or medical devices.
• At least 2 years in a people-management or team-lead role.

Nice to have

• Experience with FMEA/FMECA, fault tree analysis, reliability prediction using MIL-HDBK-217 or physics-of-failure methods, and worst-case analysis.
• Experience with extreme thermal cycling, vacuum outgassing, radiation effects including SEU, SEL, and TID, regolith or dust contamination, and launch or landing shock and vibration loads.
• Experience designing, integrating, testing, or operating space vehicles or other large, complex systems.
• Experience establishing a reliability function at a growth-stage company.
• Experience creating engineering standards, review templates, or technical guidance frameworks.
• Experience with manufacturing processes, materials selection, hardware qualification pathways, fracture control, human-rated hardware standards, or similar reliability frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid work with on-site lunches, snacks, beverages, and a monthly social hour.
• Equity ownership in the company.
• Medical, dental, vision, and mental health benefits.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Flexible PTO and parental leave.
• Culture focused on trust, balance, diverse perspectives, purposeful execution, and impact.

Hiring process

• Application review followed by a recruiter phone interview.
• Video interviews, an on-site interview, offer, and hiring decision.