Sustainment Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Onsite in Santa Barbara, CA; the role is also described as being based in Goleta, CA.

Salary: $140,000–$165,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global provides aerospace and defense subsystems, components, and turreted weapon system solutions for mission-critical military vehicles.

What you will do

• Develop operation, test, maintenance, retrofit, and technical manual procedures for turreted weapon systems supporting US Military personnel.
• Review maintainability analyses, technical publications, engineering documentation, and proposed engineering changes.
• Lead configuration management planning, establish baselines, define engineering-change scope, and validate change effectiveness.
• Support field retrofits, depot reset and overhaul activities, LRU replacement, repair procedures, functional testing, and OEM-standard restoration.
• Identify quality, cost, delivery, spares-management, and production assembly or test improvements.
• Coordinate with US Military depots, customers, suppliers, subcontractors, design engineering, business development, and sustainment teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering and at least five years of relevant technical experience.
• Experience sustaining, fielding, maintaining, or modernizing complex military or aerospace systems throughout the product lifecycle.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, bills of material, schematics, specifications, interface control documents, and military standards.
• Working knowledge of hydraulic or mechanical actuation products, electronics assembly and testing, and collaboration with technicians.
• Experience coordinating with customers or suppliers on complex projects, plus root-cause analysis, failure analysis, repair-process improvement, and planning.
• Ability to obtain and retain a Secret Clearance; access to US export-controlled information is required.

Culture & Benefits

• Compensation package with bonus opportunities, matching 401(k), and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan at select locations.
• Flexible paid time off, holidays, parental leave, and relocation assistance.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, flexible spending, health savings, and supplemental benefits.
• Tuition assistance, mentorship, coaching, leadership development, and personal growth programs.
• Respectful, collaborative workplace with employee-led resource groups.