Staff Systems Engineer – Mission Analyst (Aerospace)

Location: Westminster, Colorado, United States; Workplace: On-site. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, conditional residents, asylees, refugees, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Salary: $158,000–$189,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms.

What you will do

• Lead mission-analysis frameworks, simulation architectures, and modeling tools for LEO constellation design and optimization.
• Define constellation architecture, including sizing, orbital placement, coverage, scalability, and lifecycle operations.
• Lead system-level trade studies covering mission architectures, orbital configurations, communications performance, and operational concepts.
• Analyze orbital perturbations such as atmospheric drag, gravity-field variations, and solar radiation pressure.
• Develop strategies for station-keeping, orbit optimization, collision-risk mitigation, replenishment, replacement, and end-of-life disposal.
• Advise engineering, mission operations, program leadership, customers, and technical governance bodies while mentoring engineers and leading technical reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, astrodynamics, mechanical engineering, physics, systems engineering, applied mathematics, or a related technical field; a master’s degree with 6+ years of relevant experience may be considered.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in mission analysis, orbital mechanics, spacecraft systems, constellation design, or related aerospace disciplines.
• Deep expertise in LEO constellation design, architecture development, lifecycle operations, orbital mechanics, astrodynamics, and spacecraft mission analysis.
• Advanced experience with simulation frameworks, mission-analysis toolchains, satellite operations, mission planning, and autonomous constellation management.
• Expert knowledge of communications-system performance and its impact on mission architecture, with strong mathematical, analytical, systems-thinking, and stakeholder-communication skills.
• Proficiency with STK, GMAT, FreeFlyer, or similar orbital-analysis tools; Python or similar analytical and modeling tools; Git or comparable version-control systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, interactive, autonomous work in a dynamic, cross-functional engineering environment.
• Full-time employment with company stock options.
• Health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement benefits.
• Work is primarily performed in an office and engineering-development environment.