Flight Termination System Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Mojave, California, United States; onsite position. Travel is estimated at less than 10% as needed.

Base salary: $83,000–$206,000 annually, depending on level, location, education, skills, and experience.

Company

hirify.global develops reusable air-launched Talon testbeds for operationally realistic hypersonic flight testing and national-security applications.

What you will do

• Develop, implement, integrate, and test Flight Termination Systems (FTS) and Autonomous Flight Safety Systems (AFSS).
• Design, procure, and build AFSS hardware-in-the-loop systems.
• Coordinate with range safety personnel on technical requirements, documentation review, approvals, and range testing.
• Contribute to integrated flight-test planning for carrier aircraft, pylon, and hypersonic vehicle missions.
• Support vehicle design reviews, complex aerospace systems integration, and risk mitigation planning.
• Communicate technical status, challenges, and guidance to engineering leadership and program stakeholders.

Requirements

• Experience in electrical engineering, aircraft integration, or launch-vehicle integration.
• Experience with FTS or AFSS components, including receivers, batteries, safe-and-arm devices, ordnance, or initiators.
• Experience architecting avionics systems using commercial off-the-shelf or in-house hardware.
• Experience tailoring RCC-319 and RCC-324 requirements, maximum predicted environments, acceptance testing, and qualification testing.
• Experience with aerospace technical leadership, subcontractors, test planning and execution, and risk management.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Department of War security clearance.

Nice to have

• RF system design, link budgets, antenna design and placement.
• Debris catalogs, breakup analysis, environmental test specifications, and maximum predicted environment instrumentation.
• C, C++, AGI STK, or HFSS experience.
• Experience with government agencies, air-launch programs, or aircraft prototype development.
• Existing security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• 9/80 work schedule.
• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription-drug healthcare coverage.
• Paid maternity and parental leave.
• 50% company match per contributed dollar into a 401(k), up to $11,500.
• Tuition reimbursement.