Business Development Engineer II (Hypersonic Systems)

Location: Littleton, Colorado, United States; additional location: Long Beach, California, United States. The role is based at a hirify.global site and requires U.S. citizenship due to program requirements.

Salary: $75,000–$103,000 USD base pay annually.

Company

hirify.global is an end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems for launch, space systems, and national security missions.

What you will do

• Draft proposals and support opportunity identification, capture, and proposal activities for the HASTE hypersonic test business.
• Track opportunities, analyze pipeline activity, forecast demand, and support pricing, business planning, and product development.
• Coordinate with Engineering to assess mission requirements and prepare technical responses regarding HASTE capabilities.
• Work with Production and Engineering to establish realistic non-recurring engineering timelines and launch dates.
• Maintain HASTE marketing materials, data sheets, user guides, and customer-facing technical documentation.
• Use Salesforce and Jira to track leads, opportunities, proposals, tickets, and business development reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or another technical discipline.
• 2+ years of professional or internship experience in an engineering role within aerospace, defense, or national security.
• U.S. citizenship is required due to program requirements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Nice to have

• Experience or academic exposure to the design, manufacturing, integration, or testing of hypersonic systems, payloads, or flight vehicles.
• Experience with hypersonic systems, flight testing, launch vehicles, or related national security markets.
• Experience with fast-paced engineering programs and geographically distributed or cross-functional teams.
• Master’s degree in aerospace engineering or a related discipline.
• Experience with Python scripting, trajectory generation, or trajectory analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication, organizational, problem-solving, collaboration, and independent working skills.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, with curiosity about aerospace, hypersonics, and national security applications.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional work with Business Development, Engineering, Mission Management, Production, and Communications.
• Work involves prolonged sitting, standing, walking, and computer work, with occasional exposure to moderate noise, dust, and fumes in production areas.
• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) options, paid vacation, holidays and sick leave, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
• Additional compensation may include company stock, cash incentives, and discounted stock through the Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• Work culture emphasizes teamwork, innovation, tight deadlines, and solving complex aerospace and national security challenges.