Principal Design Engineer (CAE Cross-Domain)

Location: China; other location: Shanghai

Company

hirify.global develops engineering software and technology solutions for designing and analyzing complex systems.

What you will do

• Study CAE pre-processing and post-processing workflows and convert engineering needs into implementation-ready design specifications.
• Define use cases, user interactions, workflow states, edge cases, validation expectations, and acceptance criteria.
• Guide Nastran solver integration, including input decks, solver behavior, result interpretation, and integration constraints.
• Create wireframes, interaction models, process diagrams, and system behavior models using Figma and Visual Paradigm.
• Collaborate with product management, architecture, development, QA, and solver experts.
• Design Python scripting interfaces, automation workflows, and custom tools for CAE validation and productivity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computational Engineering, Computer-Aided Engineering, Applied Mechanics, or a related discipline.
• 12+ years of experience in mechanical engineering, CAE, simulation workflow design, solver integration, application engineering, product design, or engineering software.
• Expert knowledge of Nastran workflows, including model setup, input decks, boundary conditions, loads, constraints, solution sequences, outputs, and result interpretation.
• Deep experience with CAE model definition, mesh and geometry workflows, materials, properties, contacts, coordinate systems, units, result review, contouring, plotting, animation, and reporting.
• Hands-on Python scripting and experience defining engineering software use cases, interaction models, validation rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Practical experience with Figma, Visual Paradigm or equivalent tools, CAE platforms, and AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment focused on technically challenging engineering software.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product, architecture, development, QA, and solver specialists.
• Opportunity to improve CAE productivity, workflow validation, and customer-specific process automation.