Principal Component Engineer I (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in Westminster, Colorado, United States. 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–$189,500 per year

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead high-reliability EEE parts selection, standardization, qualification, screening, derating, and performance verification.
• Define customer testing and qualification requirements and provide component expertise across aerospace programs.
• Develop state-of-the-art component roadmaps and product upgrade strategies with engineering teams.
• Author parts plans, process definition documents, NSPARs, and Source Control Drawings.
• Review manufacturer and laboratory screening data, ECOs, procurement documents, and test-control requirements.
• Support risk mitigation, failure analysis, cost analysis, obsolescence mitigation, supplier audits, and design reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• At least 8 years of relevant experience as a component engineer.
• Experience selecting, qualifying, screening, and derating components for military and aerospace applications.
• Experience developing parts plans for high-volume satellite constellations and evaluating screening and qualification requirements.
• Familiarity with Product Lifecycle Management systems, including new part requests, part objects, and part attributes.
• Strong communication, independent working, urgency, and ability to support or lead different functions.

Nice to have

• Technical leadership experience mentoring junior component engineers and educating designers.
• Experience with failure analysis, reliability analyses such as prediction, derating, FMECA, and WCA.
• Knowledge of radiation effects including TID and SEE, tin whisker mitigation, and EEE component manufacturing processes.
• Experience with ground or air applications, RF devices, and FPGAs.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, interactive, autonomous, cross-functional work environment.
• Growth opportunities toward technical leadership or broader functional management roles.
• Full-time employment with company stock options.
• Health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement benefits.
• AI tools may support parts of the hiring process, while final decisions are made by people.