Senior Mission Operations Engineer (Spaceflight)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States; onsite position. The role requires willingness to support 24/7 operations during mission-critical phases, overtime or weekends during key milestones, and travel up to 20% of the time. Candidates must be a U.S. person or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing.

Salary: $137,000–$195,000 USD per year.

Company

hirify.global develops commercial space stations, spacecraft, satellite products, and space infrastructure for government, corporate, and private customers.

What you will do

• Develop technical training materials for crew members and Haven-1 flight controllers across vehicle subsystems.
• Build and execute training simulations, including scenario construction, scripting, automation, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Develop and test crew operations, procedures, and human-in-the-loop verification and validation processes.
• Lead technical training events and certification activities for astronauts and flight control personnel.
• Collaborate with Mission Management and engineering teams to translate customer requirements into Concepts of Operations and mission procedures.
• Support real-time missions through vehicle commissioning, on-orbit operations, anomaly resolution, deorbit activities, and telemetry analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, software, or another engineering discipline.
• At least 2 years of experience operating or developing training for complex spaceflight systems.
• Experience building systems, processes, and teams for aerospace operations and training.
• Ability to work cross-functionally, communicate technical information clearly, and make decisions in high-stress situations.
• Strong technical writing, communication, presentation, and delivery skills.
• U.S. person status or eligibility for deemed export licensing is required for access to controlled information and items.

Nice to have

• Experience in human factors engineering, human systems integration, usability testing, or human spaceflight mission operations.
• Experience developing and delivering crew and flight control team training, with on-console operational competency.
• Master’s degree in a technical field and experience in spacecraft design, build, and test.
• Knowledge of spacecraft systems, space-to-ground communications, ground systems, command-line interfaces, and scripting.
• Experience with Git, C++, Golang, Markdown, JavaScript, React, MATLAB, Python/Octave, software architecture, databases, or cloud systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time exempt employment with company equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Paid time off, vacation, paid parental leave, disability insurance, and life insurance.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan, ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare, and other discounts.
• Onsite food perks including snacks, coffee, drinks, dinner meals, and subsidized lunch.