Verification & Qualification Engineer (Space Hardware)

Location: San Jose, CA; onsite work required three days per week

Salary: $183,000–$198,000 per year, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations and provides integrated space systems for climate monitoring, national security, and Earth intelligence.

What you will do

• Capture and flow down requirements for solar arrays, solar array drive assemblies, hold-down and release mechanisms, hinges, dampers, and latches.
• Build and maintain requirements verification and traceability matrices and represent verification at PDR, CDR, TRR, and MRR reviews.
• Develop qualification, acceptance, and protoqualification test plans, including test levels, margins, instrumentation, fixtures, and success criteria.
• Coordinate and execute vibration, TVAC, thermal cycling, shock, gravity-offloaded deployment, and mechanism life-testing campaigns.
• Capture, reduce, and report test data; author qualification and acceptance data packages.
• Manage test anomalies and nonconformances, drive root-cause and corrective-action closure, and contribute to FMECA and single-point-failure analysis.

Requirements

• 5+ years developing, building, or testing complex, high-reliability hardware, including 3+ years in requirements management, verification, or qualification.
• Experience with requirements traceability and structured verification, such as RVTM or medical-device design controls and DHF.
• Experience planning or executing qualification, acceptance, or environmental test campaigns.
• Strong understanding of test, analysis, inspection, and demonstration verification methods.
• Hands-on experience with test procedures, fixtures, instrumentation, data capture, and reporting, plus excellent technical documentation skills.
• B.S. or higher in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Biomedical, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field. Access to export-controlled information requires U.S. person status or eligibility for access or export authorization.

Nice to have

• Spaceflight hardware qualification experience involving mechanisms, arrays, or structures.
• Familiarity with NASA-STD-5017, GEVS, ECSS, MIL-STD-810, or MIL-STD-1540.
• Experience with DOORS, Jama, reliability engineering, FMECA, single-point-failure analysis, or gravity-offload deployment testing.
• Medical-device or other regulated-industry experience with ISO 13485/14971 and IQ/OQ/PQ.
• Python, MATLAB, or similar software experience for test-data reduction.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employees receive equity compensation.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, disability coverage, and life insurance.
• Three weeks of paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations are provided for applicants and employees.