Vehicle Integration Engineer II

Location: Wallops Island, Virginia, United States. This U.S. office role is subject to ITAR requirements; candidates must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees, asylees, or eligible to obtain the required government authorizations.

Salary: $87,000–$110,000 USD annually, plus potential stock, cash incentives, and employee stock purchase program participation.

Company

hirify.global develops rockets, spacecraft, and critical spaceflight subsystems, including the reusable Neutron medium-lift launch vehicle.

What you will do

• Develop concepts of operations, ground support tooling, equipment, and processes for handling Neutron components and integrated stages.
• Write and execute procedures for integrating flight hardware and ground support equipment.
• Support first- and second-stage vehicle integration, propellant systems, avionics, and autonomous flight termination systems.
• Develop inspection, repair, assembly, maintenance, system-test, and vehicle-checkout procedures.
• Design and maintain processing facilities, tools, hardware, planning documents, and nonconformance improvements.
• Coordinate daily execution with managers, engineers, technicians, and other departments while managing multiple priorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, or manufacturing engineering.
• At least 2 years of experience building and testing launch-vehicle hardware and associated environments.
• Proficiency authoring comprehensive assembly, test, and launch work instructions and procedures.
• Ability to interface with mechanical, electrical, and fluid systems across multidisciplinary teams.
• Eligibility to work in the United States under applicable ITAR regulations is required.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, or manufacturing engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with launch vehicles and subsystems such as avionics, high-pressure gas, structures, electrical, and mechanical systems.
• Experience building and testing complex assemblies at system and subsystem levels.
• Experience applying project management principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan options.
• Paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, and parental leave.
• Stock, cash incentive, discounted stock purchase, and additional employee discounts may be available.
• Work involves periods of sitting, standing, walking, computer work, and occasional exposure to moderate production-area noise, dust, and fumes.