Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer - Payload

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 under space technology export regulations.

Salary: $133,000–$161,000 per year.

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead systems engineering activities for complex aerospace systems across definition, development, integration, verification, and operational support.
• Analyze mission, customer, and system requirements and decompose them into clear, verifiable system and subsystem requirements.
• Define and manage hardware, software, electrical, mechanical, and data interfaces between payloads and space vehicles.
• Support system architecture development, technical trade studies, engineering analyses, and configuration or baseline control.
• Develop verification and validation strategies, configurations, acceptance criteria, traceability matrices, and verification evidence packages.
• Partner with Integration & Test teams, evaluate test results, resolve discrepancies, support program planning, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, systems, electrical, mechanical, computer engineering, physics, or a related technical discipline with typically 5–8 years of relevant experience; equivalent master’s or PhD paths are accepted with fewer years of experience.
• Strong knowledge of systems engineering principles, the systems development lifecycle, requirements development, management, and verification.
• Experience with systems architecture, interface management, systems integration, configuration management, verification, and validation.
• Experience or proficiency with requirements management tools such as Jama or IBM DOORS, MBSE tools such as CATIA Magic/Cameo or MagicDraw, and systems modeling and simulation tools.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, collaboration platforms, version control tools such as Git, and issue tracking tools such as Jira.
• Must meet U.S. space technology export-regulation eligibility requirements. Strong analytical, organizational, communication, troubleshooting, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills are required.

Nice to have

• Experience with spacecraft mission planning, launch support, on-orbit operations, mission readiness, and operational activities.
• Experience supporting aerospace, defense, or other highly regulated engineering programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, interactive, autonomous, and cross-functional engineering environment.
• Opportunities to collaborate and develop across multidisciplinary teams.
• Full-time employment with company stock options.
• Benefits include health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement plans.