Hardware Quality Engineer (Aerospace Manufacturing)

Location: Centennial, Colorado, United States. ITAR/EAR compliance requires U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residence, protected-individual status, or eligibility to obtain the required authorizations.

Base salary: $123,746–$157,230 per year.

Company

hirify.global is developing the Overture supersonic airliner and the Superpower gas turbine.

What you will do

• Define repeatable inspection processes from receiving through in-process and final inspection.
• Develop inspection report formats, traceability frameworks, and nonconformance workflows.
• Establish standards for building, documenting, and handing off inspection programs with the inspection team.
• Identify inspection capability gaps, specify equipment, and support procurement business cases.
• Define verification requirements for parts returning from heat treatment, coating, and other outside processing.
• Build quality processes aligned with future AS9100 compliance without slowing manufacturing operations.

Requirements

• Experience as a quality engineer in aerospace, defense, or precision manufacturing.
• Demonstrated experience building quality processes rather than only operating existing systems.
• Strong GD&T fundamentals and the ability to independently develop inspection plans from engineering drawings.
• Familiarity with AS9100 or similar quality management frameworks.
• Experience specifying and procuring inspection equipment.
• Ability to collaborate directly with machinists, programmers, and engineers and make data-based quality decisions.

Nice to have

• CMM programming experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Ownership of a quality system built from the ground up.
• Direct impact on hardware for a supersonic aircraft and next-generation turbine.
• Fast-paced manufacturing environment with high expectations.
• Flexible PTO, potential long-term incentives or equity, and other employee benefits.