Senior Propulsion Engineer, Integrated Design (Aerospace)

Location: Colorado, USA

Salary: $132,000–$198,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops rockets, launch vehicles, manufacturing systems, and aerospace technologies, including the Terran R vehicle.

What you will do

• Own the overall layout and packaging of rocket engines, including trade studies for different engine configurations.
• Control and release CAD and eBOM data for top-level engine assemblies.
• Design and analyze engine hardware, including gimbals, cryogenic and hot propellant ducting, fluid manifolds, tubing, and secondary structures.
• Lead development of manufacturing or testing methods for critical flight hardware to improve performance, reliability, and cost.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Test, and Vehicle Design teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field and 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Demonstrated project or technical leadership skills.
• Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals in structures, fluids, thermal systems, and mechanisms.
• Experience designing, analyzing, assembling, and/or testing hardware.
• CAD skills using any platform.

Nice to have

• Experience with Siemens NX and Teamcenter.
• Experience designing liquid propulsion components and systems.
• Experience with finite element analysis and commercial tools such as Ansys, Abaqus, or Nastran.
• Familiarity with aerospace standards such as AS, NAS, and SAE.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on the full lifecycle of propulsion hardware, from initial design through production, qualification, and flight.
• Autonomy, ownership, accountability, and bottoms-up technical decision-making.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave, parental leave, and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Cross-functional collaboration across propulsion, manufacturing, testing, vehicle design, software, avionics, and corporate teams.