Senior Manufacturing Engineering - Factory Design (Aerospace)

Location: San Jose, California, United States

Salary: $126,700–$158,400 base pay per year

Company

hirify.global is an aerospace company developing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft for sustainable air mobility.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain CAD-based factory layouts, station arrangements, space allocations, and production flows.
• Integrate material flow, kitting, and logistics paths to reduce handling costs and work-in-progress accumulation.
• Build capacity models covering labor, equipment, and facility footprint requirements for production-rate scenarios.
• Prepare CapEx justifications and ROI analyses for layout investments, line reconfigurations, and facility expansions.
• Define facility utility requirements and coordinate equipment footprints, installation clearances, and infrastructure integration.
• Coordinate with Facilities, Construction, Quality, EHS, Automation, and Equipment Engineering teams through line commissioning and production handoff.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, or factory design and planning.
• Experience developing complex factory layouts in CAD, such as AutoCAD, CATIA, or equivalent tools.
• Strong knowledge of capacity planning, takt analysis, line balancing, and production flow optimization.
• Experience supporting facility commissioning, heavy equipment installation, or new production line start-ups.
• Work authorization must be available without company-sponsored visa support.

Nice to have

• Experience in automotive, electric vehicle, aerospace, or other highly automated and complex manufacturing environments.
• Experience with greenfield facility builds or large-scale factory expansion programs.
• Experience with factory simulation and 3D layout tools such as FlexSim, Siemens Tecnomatix/Plant Simulation, DELMIA, or Arena.
• Exposure to MES, ERP, SCADA, digital twin, or PLM integration in factory environments.
• Experience collaborating with architecture firms, infrastructure engineering partners, or general contractors.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a safety-sensitive manufacturing role supporting electric aircraft production.
• Employment is contingent on a background check and pre-employment and random drug screening.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs.
• Performance-based compensation aligned with business results.
• Inclusive workplace focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.