Lead Manufacturing Engineer (Space Systems)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States; onsite role

Base pay range: $125,000–$170,000 USD per year, California only. Total rewards may also include equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is an end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems for space missions.

What you will do

• Prepare feasibility studies and conduct manufacturing technology research and development projects.
• Partner with design engineering to apply Design for Manufacture and improve product robustness and scalability.
• Engineer, procure, install, validate, and optimize factories, assembly processes, production lines, and build areas.
• Support development builds, production ramp-up, failure triage, root-cause investigations, risk mitigation, and corrective actions.
• Own production-line performance, removing blockers, improving yield, increasing build efficiency, and driving process improvements.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives, change management, business-system improvements, and organizational efficiency efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, mechatronics, computer engineering, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of technical experience in manufacturing, production, or process engineering.
• Hands-on experience solving systemic, multifaceted problems in complex manufacturing systems.
• Ability to manage multiple complex assignments autonomously and coach and mentor colleagues across teams.
• Personnel leadership experience, including employee reviews, interviewing, hiring, team goal setting, and metrics development.
• For candidates working in U.S. offices, ITAR eligibility is required: U.S. citizenship, lawful U.S. permanent residence, qualifying refugee or asylum status, or eligibility to obtain the required government authorizations.

Nice to have

• Experience with environmental and production acceptance testing, including vibration, shock, thermal, and vacuum testing.
• Knowledge of instrumentation, interfaces, sensors, power supplies, oscilloscopes, serial devices, accelerometers, thermocouples, RTDs, and 4–20 mA sensors.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting production lines or build areas and transitioning products from design to production.
• Experience with DFMEA, PFMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, Pareto analysis, root-cause analysis, and corrective action.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced environment focused on innovation, teamwork, execution, and meaningful space missions.
• Medical HMO, PPO, and company-sponsored HSA options, plus dental and vision coverage.
• Three weeks of paid vacation, five sick days, paid holidays, parental leave, disability insurance, and life insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, employee stock purchase discounts, and potential company equity.
• Onsite gym, subsidized EV charging, food and drinks, and additional employee discounts.