Engineering Manager, Mission Mechanical (Spacecraft)

Location: Hybrid in San Jose, California, with on-site work required three days per week. Access to export-controlled information requires U.S. person status or eligibility for access without, or authorization to obtain, the required export authorization.

Salary: $186,000–$202,000 per year, plus equity and comprehensive benefits.

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations and provides integrated spacecraft systems for mission-critical Earth intelligence.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, resource, and grow a team of mechanical engineers customizing spacecraft platforms for specific missions.
• Own mechanical deliverables from requirements and design through build, integration, and environmental testing.
• Contribute hands-on designs, drawings, and analyses while setting engineering quality standards.
• Translate customer needs into robust flight hardware with mission formulation and systems teams.
• Run design reviews and test readiness reviews, and own environmental test campaigns.
• Partner with avionics, systems, thermal, structural, and production teams to optimize performance, reliability, and manufacturability.

Requirements

• 8+ years designing complex integrated systems operating in harsh environments, such as spacecraft, aviation, automotive, or robotics.
• 2+ years managing or technically leading engineering teams, with experience delivering hardware products to the field.
• Proficiency with CAD for medium-to-large assembly design and management; SolidWorks is preferred.
• Mastery of drawings, GD&T, BOMs, FAIs, tolerance budgets, mass budgets, and ECO/DCO processes.
• Experience managing structural and thermal analysis products and incorporating results into designs.
• B.S. or higher in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, with strong leadership, communication, and presentation skills.

Nice to have

• Experience managing or mentoring spacecraft design teams.
• Experience running vibration and TVAC environmental test campaigns for satellites or launch vehicles.
• Experience with risk management, customer reviews, schedules, risk tracking, and project management.
• Experience developing early-career engineers into independent contributors.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with equity compensation.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short- and long-term disability and life insurance.
• Three weeks of paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
• Commitment to diversity, equal employment opportunity, and reasonable application accommodations.