Senior Vehicle Structures Design Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Salary: $132,000–$198,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global develops Terran R rockets and the manufacturing systems needed to deliver customer payloads to orbit.

What you will do

• Design and develop piece parts, assemblies, and systems for primary and secondary Terran R structures from concept through initial release.
• Work with machined metallic components, sheet metal, composites, formed panels, and related flight hardware.
• Coordinate design-for-manufacturing decisions with manufacturing engineering and support component fabrication.
• Assess packaging, resolve interferences, perform tolerance stack analyses, validate hardware stacks and fastener selections, and define gapping and shimming strategies.
• Support BOM and configuration management across multiple vehicle systems and manage parts and assemblies in PLM.
• Create and release drawings after CDR, using GD&T as the primary definition, and present recommendations for design decisions.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in a design engineering role.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related discipline.
• Experience with industry-standard CAD packages such as NX, CATIA, Creo, or SOLIDWORKS.
• Fundamental knowledge of structural strength, stability, and fatigue failure mechanisms.
• Ability to work with large assemblies and navigate large vehicle BOMs.
• Self-motivated, adaptable, organized, and able to lead projects to completion in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to complete collaborative mechanical or structural design projects effectively.

Nice to have

• 2+ years of experience with NX/Teamcenter PLM.
• 3+ years of experience with GD&T and drafting.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on ownership of flight hardware across the full design, build, and test lifecycle.
• Cross-functional collaboration with autonomy, ownership, and direct impact on vehicle decisions.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous PTO and sick leave, parental leave, and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Work is performed in a fast-paced environment supporting the Terran R vehicle and factory.