Principal Mechanical Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Westminster, Colorado, United States; 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: $142,000–$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 a mechanical engineering team responsible for spacecraft, subsystems, structures, mechanisms, and interfaces.
• Deliver mechanical designs from requirements definition and architecture trades through analysis, manufacturing, assembly, testing, qualification, and in-orbit support.
• Develop and review mechanical, structural, thermal, electronics-packaging, deployable, and actuated-structure designs.
• Coordinate mechanical interfaces and cross-functional alignment with GNC, EPS, CDH, Payload, RF, Systems, and AI&T teams.
• Mentor and develop engineers while supporting spacecraft team leadership and technical decision-making.
• Present engineering design reviews to customers and executives and contribute to proposal writing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• 11 years of experience designing communications satellite structures and mechanisms across the full development lifecycle.
• At least 5 years of experience leading technical teams, with ownership of one or more full mechanical development cycles at the space-vehicle level.
• Experience with mechanics of materials, hand calculations, architectural trade studies, structural and thermal analysis review, and parametric cost and physical analysis.
• Experience with CAD and FEA tools such as SolidWorks Simulation, Ansys, and Nastran, plus CNC manufacturing and GD&T.
• Hands-on experience with spacecraft AI&T and environmental test campaigns including vibration, shock, and TVAC.

Nice to have

• Experience across LEO, GEO, and beyond, ranging from CubeSats and SmallSats to large GEO satellites.
• Python or other scripting experience.
• Experience with multiple spacecraft structural and mechanical architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, interactive, autonomous, and cross-functional engineering environment.
• Full-time employment with company stock options.
• Health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement benefits.
• Opportunities to develop space hardware for advanced communications satellites.