Structures Design Reliability Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States. The position is located in Long Beach and requires eligibility under U.S. export-control regulations, including U.S. person status or eligibility for deemed export licensing.

Salary: $162,360–$265,392 per year in California.

Company

hirify.global develops next-generation commercial space stations, including the Haven-1 human-rated space station, for microgravity research, manufacturing, and a growing space economy.

What you will do

• Guide the design and reliability of primary and secondary structures for Haven-1.
• Lead FMEA, fault tree analysis, risk quantification, and design improvements across flight, launch, and ground support systems.
• Provide technical leadership during design reviews, risk gates, acceptance testing, and qualification test campaigns.
• Define design criteria, requirements, verification approaches, test methodologies, and reliability standards.
• Track design maturity, configuration changes, compliance, and verification and validation of design revisions.
• Partner with hardware, manufacturing, configuration management, risk management, and software teams to transition the station from design through build and test.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or a related engineering discipline.
• 6+ years of professional experience in responsible engineering, design ownership, systems integration, test engineering, or reliability-focused development.
• Experience designing, assembling, integrating, or testing hardware.
• Experience with complex aerospace, mission-critical, safety-critical, or human-rated systems.
• Knowledge of reliability methodologies, fracture control, manufacturing processes, materials selection, and hardware qualification pathways.
• Strong scripting and data analysis skills using Python, MATLAB, or Excel, with familiarity with visualization tools such as Tableau.

Nice to have

• 10+ years of related professional experience.
• Background in Responsible Engineering, Systems Engineering, Office of the Chief Engineer, or Reliability Engineering.
• Experience creating engineering standards, review templates, or technical guidance frameworks.
• Strong systems-level intuition and ability to identify and articulate risks early.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time exempt employment with company equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Paid time off, parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and access to a 401(k) plan.
• Support for critical mission milestones, including willingness to work overtime or weekends when needed.
• Onsite food perks including snacks, coffee, drinks, dinner meals, and subsidized lunch.