Lead Mechanical Engineer (Defense Systems)

Location: Hybrid or onsite, with reporting to the main office in Mullica Hill, New Jersey; onsite work preferred. The posting also references Longmont, Colorado. Travel to customer locations, manufacturing facilities, subcontractor and supplier sites, integration sites, and test ranges is required.

Salary: $141,426–$172,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global operates within Lyntris, a defense technology organization developing integrated hardware, software, and mission systems for U.S. and allied defense organizations.

What you will do

• Provide mechanical engineering leadership and technical authority for complex defense hardware and integrated mission systems.
• Develop and mature mechanical architectures, subsystem designs, packaging concepts, interfaces, and integration approaches.
• Oversee subcontractor and supplier engineering activities, technical data packages, drawings, analyses, manufacturing plans, and delivered hardware.
• Support integration, troubleshooting, verification, environmental qualification, field demonstrations, and production transition for radar sensors, unmanned systems, payloads, and weapons-related systems.
• Lead design reviews, risk mitigation, discrepancy resolution, engineering changes, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Support proposals, technical writing, cost estimates, customer briefings, and partner engagement.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance are required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related technical discipline; an advanced degree is preferred.
• 15+ years of experience in mechanical subsystem research, design, development, integration, testing, production transition, or technical oversight.
• Expertise in mechanical engineering, including CNC machining, CMM inspection, GD&T, additive manufacturing, extreme environments, thermal management, heat pipes, sheet metal, welding, structural design, materials, and manufacturability.
• Experience with CAD and simulation tools such as SolidWorks, Creo/Pro-E, CATIA, Siemens NX, Ansys, Altair, MATLAB, Python, or equivalent tools.
• Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, configuration management, engineering change, documentation control, and design-release skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with defense systems, radar sensors, unmanned systems, maritime systems, weapons-related systems, or advanced payload integration.
• Advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related technical discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Integrated design, build, and test capabilities are provided in-house.
• Work involves multidisciplinary collaboration with engineering leadership, customers, suppliers, subcontractors, manufacturing partners, and government stakeholders.
• Paid time off and company holidays.
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and employee assistance benefits.
• 401(k) matching.