Staff Reliability and Maintainability Engineer (R5301)

Location: Dallas, Texas; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops unmanned aircraft systems, including V-BAT and X-BAT, for defense and operational applications.

What you will do

• Lead investigations into V-BAT field failures, repeat defects, reliability issues, maintainability issues, and complex technical escalations.
• Drive root cause and corrective action investigations from containment and failure analysis through verification and closure.
• Analyze logs, returned hardware, test data, maintenance records, configuration history, environmental conditions, and operational context.
• Coordinate with Fleet Support Engineering, Product Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Reliability Data Engineering, Supply Chain, and Operations.
• Translate investigation findings into design, process, maintenance, supplier quality, retrofit, software, or configuration improvements.
• Provide technical input to product health reviews, reliability readouts, sustainment reviews, fleet readiness assessments, and leadership updates.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, Systems, Reliability Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in reliability engineering, maintainability engineering, failure analysis, systems engineering, quality engineering, aviation sustainment, manufacturing engineering, product support, or complex hardware sustainment.
• Experience leading field-failure, repeat-defect, hardware, system-level, or complex product-performance investigations.
• Experience with structured problem-solving and failure-analysis methods such as 5 Whys, fault tree analysis, fishbone diagrams, 8D, FMEA/FMECA, FRACAS, and fault isolation.
• Ability to distinguish design, manufacturing, supplier quality, configuration, software, operator, environmental, maintenance, and documentation contributors.
• Ability to work independently as a senior technical individual contributor and drive cross-functional accountability without direct authority.

Nice to have

• Experience with unmanned aircraft systems, aviation sustainment, aerospace manufacturing, defense products, robotics, or deployed hardware systems.
• Experience with reliability growth, fleet reliability tracking, MTBF/MTBUR, Weibull analysis, reliability block diagrams, maintainability analysis, or product health dashboards.
• Experience analyzing aircraft logs, flight data, maintenance data, telemetry, software logs, test results, inspection findings, or returned hardware.
• Familiarity with RCCA, MRB, ECO/ECR, configuration management, service bulletins, maintenance releases, retrofit planning, or field service actions.
• Experience in a startup, high-growth, defense technology, aerospace, robotics, or advanced manufacturing environment.