Lead Integration Build Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Onsite in Long Beach, California, United States. The role requires travel of up to 25% and the willingness to work overtime or weekends during critical mission milestones.

Salary: $120,000–$194,000 USD per year in California.

Company

hirify.global develops next-generation commercial space stations, including the Haven station, to enable continuous human presence in space, microgravity research, manufacturing, and a new space economy.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the Integration Build Engineering team responsible for facilities, tooling, and processes for Haven-1 flight-hardware production and testing.
• Support daily hardware production and vehicle-level integration while maintaining safety, schedule, cost, and on-orbit performance objectives.
• Plan and execute build, integration, validation, verification, leak-check, and environmental-test activities for complex flight hardware.
• Design and implement tooling and fixture solutions across Haven-1 integration campaigns.
• Develop design-for-manufacturing requirements, work instructions, test procedures, and technical documentation.
• Evaluate nonconformances, determine root causes, drive corrective actions, and coordinate with design engineering, supply chain, mission management, and other partner teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, manufacturing, aerospace, electrical, or a related engineering field.
• At least 2 years of related engineering experience, including experience building, assembling, integrating, or testing complex assemblies and systems.
• Experience working hands-on with hardware, technicians, and multi-person operations.
• At least 1 year of experience leading teams, projects, or people.
• Experience with work instructions, test plans, procedures, configuration management, PFMEA, and root-cause/corrective-action methods.
• Due to U.S. export-control requirements, the hire must be a U.S. person or otherwise eligible for deemed-export licensing. Ability to lift up to 25 pounds unassisted is also required.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Epsilon3 and Python environments.
• Experience with GD&T, complex tolerance stack-ups, mechanical design and analysis, and Siemens NX/Teamcenter or similar PLM tools.
• Experience making go/no-go judgments, planning vehicle-level verification, and working with leak checks or environmental tests.
• Ability to make independent decisions with limited information in a fast-paced, high-stress environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time exempt employment with company equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Paid time off, vacation with annual cash-out options, and paid parental leave.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare, discounts, and subsidized or complimentary food and beverages onsite.