Mission Engineer II (Nuclear Energy)

Location: Onsite in Torrance, California, in the Los Angeles area; travel to customer and mission-relevant locations may be required.

Salary: $112,000–$150,000 annually; the role-specific range for Mission Engineer II is $115,000–$150,000, plus stock options.

Company

hirify.global is a Series B startup developing mass-producible, inherently safe microreactors for terrestrial, underwater, and space applications.

What you will do

• Lead delivery of customer-facing programs, owning cost, schedule, quality, contractual compliance, and milestone execution.
• Coordinate engineering collaboration, reviews, and stakeholder alignment across commercial, defense, and space missions.
• Connect customer feedback with engineering design inputs through closed-loop requirements management.
• Develop proposals, operational use cases, interface requirements, performance justifications, and new programs for DoD and DOE sponsors.
• Conduct market, use-case, and CONOPS research while developing technical roadmaps for deployment readiness.
• Contribute to system architecture and interface specifications, including logistics, facility interfaces, transportation, commissioning, and decommissioning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or applied science.
• 3+ years of experience in complex, safety-critical, defense, or aerospace programs with accountability for cost, schedule, and technical performance.
• Strong foundations in thermodynamics, thermofluids, energy systems, aerospace, engineering economics, and systems-level thinking.
• Experience developing or integrating hardware in energy, automotive, nuclear, or aerospace environments.
• Systems engineering proficiency, cross-disciplinary problem-solving ability, and strong technical writing and communication skills.
• Must meet U.S. government export-control requirements: be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to obtain the required authorizations.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or PhD in engineering.
• Python proficiency for numerical or multiphysics work and familiarity with Git and CI/CD.
• Government sponsor experience with DoD, DOE, NASA, USAF, or USSF, including proposal and contract wins.
• PMP or another relevant project management certification.
• Ability to obtain a Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on advanced nuclear energy systems for defense, climate, and space applications.
• Values include systems thinking, end-user focus, unconventional problem-solving, operating in ambiguity, and meeting customers and stakeholders in person.
• Stock option package included.
• Ability to work long hours and weekends when required by critical milestones.