Hardware and Environments Test Engineer (III-Senior, Aerospace)

Location: Fully onsite in Long Beach, California, United States

Salary: $125,000–$155,000 for Test Engineer 3; $140,000–$175,000 for Senior Test Engineer

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors for space defense.

What you will do

• Define and lead multiple test campaigns, including requirements verification, procedure development, and execution oversight.
• Author and review test plans, procedures, readiness reports, compliance matrices, and other technical documentation.
• Coordinate with program leadership, customers, regulators, vendors, technicians, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Analyze test data, investigate root causes, resolve anomalies and nonconformances, and troubleshoot flight hardware safely.
• Serve as Test Director and technical point of contact for test communications, safety protocols, and facility compliance.
• Provide technical support and mentorship to junior engineers and create training standards for test equipment operation.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering field.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret or Top Secret clearance.
• Experience safely handling, operating, and testing flight hardware, including areas such as thermal, structural, electromagnetic interference/compatibility, RF, or fluids testing.
• Experience leading complex test campaigns and multidisciplinary teams, with strong communication, documentation, data analysis, systems engineering, and failure analysis skills.
• Ability to create training standards for technicians and engineers operating test equipment.

Nice to have

• Master’s or higher degree in a relevant engineering field.
• Knowledge of environmental and performance test methodologies and standards.
• Expertise with data acquisition, test automation, and scripting using LabVIEW, Python, or MATLAB.
• Experience with MIL-STD-810, DO-160, or NASA/DoD specifications.
• Active Secret or Top Secret clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven work focused on aerospace defense and space superiority.
• Health, dental, vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO, and paid holidays.
• 401(k) and parental leave.
• Equity compensation.
• Onsite work in a fast-paced environment involving indoor and outdoor conditions, noise, temperature variation, lifting, bending, sitting, and driving.