Senior/Principal Design Reliability Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: El Segundo, California, United States; onsite. Applicants must be U.S. persons under ITAR, including U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or protected persons.

Annual salary: $150,000–$225,000 USD

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures critical avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components and subsystems for aerospace, defense, and industrial platforms.

What you will do

• Create and maintain a standard process for digesting and tracking customer requirements.
• Lead customer requirements discussions, challenge requirements where appropriate, and provide risk-focused feedback during product development.
• Attend design reviews, track actions through closure, and own the CAD release approval process, including systems such as Teamcenter, NX, or Altium.
• Develop company-wide design guides and standards for component selection, analysis, electromechanical systems, hydraulics, avionics, and hardware qualification.
• Support qualification failure root-cause analysis, corrective actions, configuration management, and identification of design gaps across factories.
• Mentor engineering teams and collaborate with mechanical, electrical, software, and build engineering.

Requirements

• Substantial mechanical or electrical engineering experience with aerospace or defense hardware from concept through flight qualification and production.
• Deep expertise in at least one mechanical or electrical discipline, with working fluency across adjacent areas.
• Hands-on, lab-comfortable experience and strong engineering first-principles knowledge.
• Experience with hand calculations, FEA, and other simulation or analysis tools.
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-810, DO-160, and other aerospace qualification frameworks.
• Independent, direct, action-oriented ownership with the ability to guide peers and work cross-functionally.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work in a fast-paced aerospace and defense hardware environment.
• Opportunity to establish design standards and processes across seven factories.
• Direct reporting to the head of engineering.
• Access to software team support for CAD and engineering application ownership.
• Broad technical mentorship and increasing leadership responsibility.