Team Lead - Ground Systems Team X

Location: Auckland, New Zealand; projects support multiple sites in New Zealand and the USA.

Company

hirify.global is an end-to-end space company that designs, builds, and launches rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems for commercial, civil, defense, and academic missions.

What you will do

• Lead engineers delivering projects across production tooling, ground support equipment, and test and launch infrastructure.
• Serve as a technical decision maker for design for manufacturing, testing, quality control, risk assessment, and productivity.
• Plan resources and prioritize capital projects to introduce capabilities and improve existing infrastructure as production and launch cadence scale.
• Collaborate with teams across the Neutron program on development, production, testing, and operations.
• Deliver projects across multiple sites in New Zealand and the USA.
• Mentor, coach, develop, and recruit engineering talent.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, manufacturing engineering, or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of engineering design experience.
• At least 1 year of experience in engineering management, team management, project management, or a similar role.
• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
• New Zealand applicants undergo background and nationality checks because the role involves access to equipment and data regulated by U.S. ITAR.
• For New Zealand office roles, eligibility may depend on citizenship of Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, the European Union, or a NATO member country, subject to ITAR restrictions.

Nice to have

• Experience designing large tooling, equipment, structures, launch pad systems, or systems for oil and gas, process, or mining industries.
• Familiarity with NASA, ASME, ASTM, IEC, or AS/NZS standards.
• Working knowledge of Siemens NX and Teamcenter.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, structural analysis, hand calculations, FEA, process and instrumentation diagrams, or wiring diagrams.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced environment focused on innovation, ambition, and world-first space missions.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams on rockets, spacecraft, and space systems.
• Culture emphasizes teamwork, ownership, practical execution, and delivering against tight deadlines.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation support are provided.