Lead Mechanical Engineer (Defense Technology)

Location: U.S.-based role with work associated with Longmont, CO; Huntsville, TX; Dallas, TX; Syracuse, NY; Crane, IN, and reporting to the main office in Mullica Hill, NJ. The position is on-site or hybrid, with on-site work preferred, and requires travel to customer, manufacturing, supplier, integration, and test sites.

Salary: $141,426–$172,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a defense technology company developing integrated hardware, software, and mission systems for sensing, decision-making, and action across space, air, land, sea, and cyber environments.

What you will do

• Lead mechanical engineering approaches, architectures, subsystem designs, packaging concepts, interface definitions, and integration strategies for advanced defense systems.
• Guide structural, thermal, environmental, producibility, maintainability, survivability, and design-for-manufacturing trade studies.
• Oversee subcontractor and supplier engineering activities, including CAD models, drawings, analyses, manufacturing plans, test plans, and delivered hardware.
• Support integration, troubleshooting, qualification testing, field demonstrations, root-cause analysis, nonconformance evaluation, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate with fabrication, manufacturing, supplier, and integration teams to improve producibility, configuration control, quality, and production readiness.
• Contribute to proposals, technical papers, customer briefings, design reviews, risk assessments, and engineering solution development.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Defense security clearance are required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 15+ years of experience in mechanical subsystem research, design, development, integration, testing, production transition, or technical oversight.
• Technical-authority experience with complex mechanical, electromechanical, sensor, payload, or integrated defense systems.
• Expert knowledge of 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, or Python, plus configuration management and engineering change processes.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• On-site or hybrid work environment with on-site work preferred.
• Paid time off and paid company holidays.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• HSA and FSA options, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
• 401(k) matching and an employee assistance program.