Senior CAD Loft Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Oregon; on-site

Company

hirify.global is developing an autonomous aircraft network using long-range VTOL aircraft, autonomy software, and operational systems for time-sensitive medical logistics between hospitals, laboratories, and healthcare facilities.

What you will do

• Own and maintain the authoritative master CAD model and outer-mold-line geometry for Haast aircraft.
• Develop complete aircraft lofts and production-quality surfaces for fuselages, wings, intersections, fairings, nacelles, booms, empennage, payload doors, access panels, and propulsion integrations.
• Establish coordinate systems, reference geometry, stations, datums, master sections, interface locations, and robust parametric or skeleton-model architectures.
• Evaluate and correct surface quality, continuity, gaps, intersections, minimum-radius issues, thickness conflicts, and non-manufacturable geometry.
• Convert outer-mold-line surfaces into composite structures, skins, cores, bulkheads, ribs, spars, frames, bonded assemblies, molds, tooling, fixtures, and assembly references.
• Produce part models, assemblies, engineering drawings, interface-control drawings, GD&T, tolerance definitions, bills of materials, and released CAD data while supporting fabrication, assembly, and flight testing.

Requirements

• At least two years of professional experience in aircraft lofting, airframe surface design, aerospace CAD, or aircraft product definition.
• Demonstrated experience developing the outer mold line or master geometry for a complete aircraft or major airframe assembly.
• Expert proficiency in CATIA, Siemens NX, Creo, SolidWorks, or an equivalent production CAD platform.
• Advanced capability in complex surfacing, multi-section lofting, guide-curve development, boundary surfaces, trimming, blending, and repair.
• Strong understanding of surface continuity, spline behavior, curvature control, and the relationship between aerodynamic intent and manufacturable geometry.
• Experience with aircraft coordinate systems, airfoil data, wing planforms, fuselage sections, aerodynamic intersections, and control-surface geometry.
• Experience building stable master-model or skeleton-model CAD architectures for multiple engineers and downstream parts.
• Ability to translate conceptual aircraft geometry into production-quality models, drawings, tooling, and manufacturing data.
• Understanding of GD&T, tolerance analysis, engineering drawings, assembly interfaces, and configuration control.
• Experience with composite, molded, machined, or fabricated aerospace structures.
• Portfolio or work samples demonstrating complex aircraft lofting and surfacing work.

Nice to have

• Experience with fixed-wing UAV, eVTOL, general-aviation, or experimental-aircraft development.
• Experience lofting composite fuselages, wings, fairings, nacelles, payload doors, and aerodynamic transitions.
• Proficiency with CATIA Generative Shape Design, Siemens NX Shape Studio, or equivalent advanced surfacing environments.
• Experience importing, cleaning, and controlling airfoil coordinates and aerodynamic reference geometry.
• Familiarity with PDM or PLM systems, model-based definition, release workflows, and aerospace configuration-control practices.
• Experience developing molds, tooling surfaces, trim fixtures, assembly jigs, and composite manufacturing data.
• Familiarity with CFD geometry preparation, mesh-ready surface cleanup, and exchanging geometry with aerodynamic-analysis tools.
• Hands-on experience supporting aircraft fabrication, assembly, inspection, and flight testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an early-stage, small, fast-moving aerospace company.
• Take direct ownership of CAD standards, engineering processes, testing discipline, partner relationships, and the path from prototype to production.
• Build the CAD foundation for structural design, tooling, manufacturing, and future aircraft configurations.
• Work across aerodynamics, structures, manufacturing partners, propulsion, avionics, payload, and flight-test functions.