Senior Vehicle Structures Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Salary: $132,000–$198,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global develops launch vehicles and manufacturing systems, including the Terran R rocket for delivering customer payloads to orbit.

What you will do

• Conceptualize structural load paths, complex structures, and adjacent-system packaging for Terran R.
• Review static and dynamic loads, material properties, test data, and structural system requirements.
• Analyze and size primary and secondary flight structures, including thrust structures, propellant tanks, interstages, and fairings.
• Design flight components in NX and TeamCenter, perform structural analysis, and create and release drawings.
• Develop and support hardware test campaigns, including test integration, operation, and results evaluation.
• Support manufacturing process development and own designs from requirements through production.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a design engineering role.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Experience with industry-standard CAD packages such as NX, Creo, or SolidWorks.
• Working knowledge of structural analysis, finite element methods, industry analysis tools, and testing.
• At least 1 year of experience working with structures strengths.
• Ability to lead projects to completion, document technical work, and collaborate effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• 5+ years of mechanical or structural design and analysis experience.
• Experience with NX and TeamCenter.
• Experience using Nastran and ANSYS.
• Experience with GD&T and drafting.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomous work with ownership of flight hardware and design decisions.
• Cross-functional collaboration across design, manufacturing, testing, and other teams.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off, sick leave, and parental leave.
• Annual learning and development stipend.