Senior Staff Engineer, Aerostructures Stress Analyst

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States; on-site

Salary: $170,000–$260,000 per year, plus bonus, benefits, and equity for regular employees.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, autonomous aircraft, autonomy software, and simulation technologies.

What you will do

• Lead structural analysis for UAV airframes, major substructures, and critical components.
• Define finite element models, load cases, assumptions, and margin assessments.
• Perform and oversee static, modal, fatigue, vibration, and damage-tolerance analyses.
• Establish hand-calculation, model-validation, and analysis-to-test correlation practices.
• Support structural test strategy, execution, result correlation, design reviews, and flight-test validation.
• Optimize structures for performance, weight, cost, and manufacturability while mentoring analysts and partnering with design, loads, aerodynamics, propulsion, and systems teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in structural analysis, aircraft structures, or aerospace systems.
• Strong experience with FEA tools such as ANSYS, NASTRAN, or HyperWorks.
• Advanced hand-calculation skills covering strength, stability, fatigue, and damage tolerance.
• Significant experience with composite and lightweight aerospace structures, structural testing, model correlation, and flight-test validation.
• Ability to lead complex technical workstreams, influence design decisions, communicate findings to engineering leadership, and obtain a desired S//SAR-level security clearance.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• Senior technical leadership experience on aircraft or UAV structural programs.
• Hands-on flight-test support and certification experience.
• Experience developing internal analysis standards and familiarity with CAD, PLM, and enterprise engineering toolchains.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time regular employment with bonus, benefits, and equity.
• Work in an accelerated aircraft-development environment focused on transitioning concepts into operational capability.
• Opportunity to support autonomous aircraft systems used by service members and civilians.
• Offers are contingent on a cleared background and may include a reference check.