Senior Turbomachinery Aeromechanics Engineer

Location: Los Angeles, United States; onsite hardware development role

Salary: $140,000–$220,000 per year, depending on leveling and experience.

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 aerodynamic and structural design of compressor and turbine stages.
• Support architecture trades through meanline analysis, preliminary sizing, and performance modeling.
• Design blades, vanes, diffusers, volutes, and related flow-path components.
• Develop turbomachinery performance maps for Brayton-cycle system development.
• Perform static, modal, low-cycle fatigue, high-cycle fatigue, and creep analysis of rotating hardware.
• Correlate aerodynamic, structural, and life predictions with component and rig testing, then implement design improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of professional experience designing compressors, pumps, and/or turbines.
• Strong understanding of turbomachinery aerodynamics and aerodynamic design methods.
• Experience with structural analysis and life-limiting mechanisms in high-speed rotating hardware, including fatigue, creep, and modal resonance.
• Ability to make engineering trade-offs across performance, structural margin, life, manufacturability, cost, and schedule.
• Applicants must meet U.S. export-control eligibility requirements: U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to obtain the required authorization.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Seven or more years of high-performance turbomachinery design experience.
• Experience with ANSYS Mechanical, CFX, BladeGen, TurboGrid, AxSTREAM, PUMPAL, NX, or comparable tools.
• Experience with forced-response analysis, hardware validation, and correlating analytical models with test data.

Culture & Benefits

• Significant stock option package in addition to salary.
• Work emphasizes systems thinking, first-principles analysis, and practical engineering decisions.
• Teams prioritize face-to-face collaboration while supporting deep work from anywhere when appropriate.
• Occasional weekend or extended-hour work may be required to support hardware development milestones.
• Employment decisions are based on merit, competence, and qualifications.