Structural Analysis Engineer II (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Hiring range: $104,000–$156,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops Terran R, a reusable launch vehicle designed to deliver customer payloads to orbit, along with the manufacturing systems and infrastructure required for commercial launch operations.

What you will do

• Drive the architecture, sizing, and development of tanks, thrust structures, mechanisms, trays, lines, and other launch-vehicle components.
• Build, execute, and validate structural analyses at component, system, and vehicle levels.
• Develop analysis tools, automation, and novel structural analysis techniques for reusable launch vehicles.
• Guide design and development engineers in applying structural mechanics and analysis principles to system and component requirements.
• Develop and execute qualification tests, including test article integration, instrumentation setup, and data processing.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in engineering or a related discipline.
• At least 2 years of experience in an analysis role.
• Working knowledge of structural analysis and testing, from hand calculations to nonlinear buckling or explicit dynamics.
• Fundamental knowledge of metallic structure behavior and failure modes, including strength, stability, and fatigue.
• Proficiency with a commercial aerospace finite element package such as Nastran or Abaqus and a pre/post-processor such as Femap.
• Proficiency with an engineering scripting language such as Python or MATLAB.

Nice to have

• Graduate degree in engineering or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of experience in an analysis role.
• Experience across one or more full product lifecycles of an integrated vehicle.
• Graduate education in structural mechanics, computer science, or numerical methods.
• Experience with Abaqus or ANSA.

Culture & Benefits

• Work spans propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, and corporate functions with direct cross-functional collaboration.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave.
• Parental leave and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation support.