Senior Systems Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA; onsite or remote within the United States

Salary: $175,000–$195,000 base salary annually

Company

hirify.global develops mission-critical technologies for space, defense, and national security, including lunar systems and spacecraft.

What you will do

• Develop and review concepts and designs for lunar landers, rovers, surface power systems, and spacecraft.
• Define system-level technical visions, mission architectures, and product goals across hardware and software domains.
• Perform trade studies, system-level analysis, first-order sizing, and generate high-level master equipment and parts lists.
• Author and manage mission concepts of operations, requirements, launch vehicle requirements, fault management, interfaces, verification plans, and technical risk mitigations.
• Create technical content for proposals, research and development efforts, and customer presentations.
• Collaborate with engineering disciplines, customers, partners, vendors, and cross-functional teams to resolve technical challenges.

Requirements

• B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline, plus 5–10 years of relevant engineering experience; an advanced degree may substitute for equivalent experience.
• Experience in space system development, systems engineering, or related areas such as avionics, power systems, propulsion, orbital mechanics, structures, thermal systems, software, controls, or manufacturing.
• Experience developing proposal content and external customer presentations.
• Experience authoring and decomposing mission- and system-level requirements.
• Strong understanding of launch, space, and lunar environments.
• Must be a U.S. Person under ITAR/EAR regulations and eligible to obtain required export authorizations.

Nice to have

• Experience with full mission solutions, mission architecture development, or reliability analysis.
• Knowledge of NASA and industry engineering standards.
• Experience working in an agile environment with Confluence and Jira.
• Eligibility to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible time off supporting work-life balance.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• 401(k) plan with a 50% company match on contributions up to 8%.
• Wellness programs, voluntary benefits, and employee support resources.
• Opportunity to work in an innovative, mission-driven environment.