Staff Manufacturing Engineer, Structures (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Hiring range: $143,000–$215,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures rockets, including the reusable Terran R launch vehicle, to deliver customer payloads to orbit.

What you will do

• Own the shop floor for one or more primary structure assembly work centers, remove barriers, and keep production moving.
• Drive process improvements across work centers using lessons from the first Terran R build.
• Collaborate with design, manufacturing, and reliability engineers, production teams, and external vendors to advance builds.
• Create work instructions, specifications, and best practices for high-fidelity processes and standardize them across the manufacturing organization.
• Provide design-for-manufacturing feedback to structures teams from development through prototype and flight builds.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, aerospace, mechanical, or another engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of related experience.
• Hands-on experience supporting complex assembly builds, making risk-based disposition decisions, and keeping production moving.
• Strong fundamentals in statics, mechanics of materials, process improvement, factory design, fastening and joining, and machining.
• Working knowledge of drilling and trim operations, tooling, inspection methods, and GD&T.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work across engineering and manufacturing in a high-pressure environment.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with drilling, trimming, and fastening operations on aerospace products.
• Successful new product introduction of an aerospace hardware system into manufacturing, testing, and production.
• Project management experience in a fast-paced environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Work involves high autonomy, ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and direct impact on the vehicle, manufacturing process, and business.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave.
• Parental leave.
• Annual learning and development stipend.