Turbomachinery Engineer

Location: Los Angeles, United States. The role supports hardware development milestones, including occasional weekend or long-hour pushes.

Salary: $140,000–$220,000 per year, depending on leveling and experience. Senior level: $140,000–$185,000; Staff level: $155,000–$220,000.

Company

hirify.global is a Series C startup developing mass-producible, inherently safe microreactors for terrestrial, underwater, and space applications.

What you will do

• Own new and existing turbomachinery hardware from concept through development, qualification, and production.
• Lead turbomachinery design, analysis, builds, testing, and technical execution for nuclear reactor hardware.
• Translate system requirements into turbomachinery requirements, interfaces, and verification plans.
• Coordinate aerodynamics, mechanical design, structures, rotordynamics, bearings, thermal analysis, manufacturing, and test activities.
• Define development and test plans to retire the highest technical risks early.
• Work with suppliers and manufacturing, test, and quality engineers to resolve issues, drive corrective actions, and deliver hardware on schedule.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of full-cycle design engineering experience.
• Experience releasing production-intent mechanical drawings and models, including GD&T and tolerance stack-up.
• Working knowledge of turbomachinery and high-speed rotating machinery.
• Ability to make tradeoffs involving performance, manufacturability, cost, risk, and schedule.
• Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees, asylees, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations under export regulations.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of turbomachinery design and ownership experience.
• Experience as a responsible engineer, design owner, technical lead, or equivalent for complex hardware.
• Experience working directly with suppliers and manufacturing teams to resolve design and production issues.
• Proficiency with NX, ANSYS Mechanical, and CFX.

Culture & Benefits

• Significant stock option package in addition to base salary.
• Values systems thinking, end-user focus, unconventional problem solving, practical stakeholder engagement, and thoughtful decision-making under uncertainty.
• Deep work can be performed remotely, while teams prioritize working together in person.
• Opportunity to develop hardware for advanced nuclear energy, defense, climate, and space applications.