Senior Mechanisms Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Torrance, California, or Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States

Company

hirify.global develops and delivers advanced defense systems, including long-range hypersonic strike vehicles.

What you will do

• Design and develop mechanical actuation systems, elevon drive trains, and control surface mechanisms for high-speed flight vehicles.
• Lead mechanism architecture and detailed design covering gear trains, linkages, bearings, and structural components.
• Analyze loads, stresses, deflections, dynamic behavior, fatigue, tolerances, lubrication, and reliability in extreme environments.
• Integrate mechanisms with control electronics, GNC, avionics, and structures systems.
• Support prototyping, assembly, hardware bring-up, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and qualification testing.
• Optimize designs for mass, stiffness, reliability, and manufacturability while mentoring junior engineers and supporting technical trade-offs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in mechanism design, analysis, and validation for aerospace or other high-performance mechanical systems.
• Strong experience with gear trains, actuation systems, precision mechanical design, and aerospace electromechanical actuators.
• Experience with motor selection, gear reduction, torque transmission, position feedback, control surface drive systems, or comparable high-load mechanisms.
• Proficiency with CAD and analysis tools such as NX, SolidWorks, ANSYS, or equivalent.
• Experience with hardware build and testing, high-temperature materials, lubrication strategies, and extreme operating environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, hardware-driven environment with a high flight cadence.
• Significant ownership and direct impact in an early-stage organization.
• Collaboration across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Generous benefits package.
• Access to classified or export-controlled information may require U.S. government authorization, security clearance, or other eligibility requirements if applicable.