Sr. Industrial Engineer (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 all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft for sustainable air mobility.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain factory simulation models for production throughput, capacity, and scaling strategies.
• Model end-to-end manufacturing flow, including receiving, inventory staging, production lines, machine routing, material delivery, and outbound logistics.
• Represent equipment stations, conveyance systems, routing logic, and machine cycle times in simulation models.
• Analyze line balancing, equipment utilization, queue behavior, and production bottlenecks.
• Run scenario simulations for factory layout changes, capacity improvements, and future production scaling.
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineering, equipment design, and factory planning teams to evaluate material flow and manufacturing decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations Research, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing systems modeling, or factory simulation.
• Hands-on experience with discrete event simulation and production flow modeling.
• Strong knowledge of production routing, machine cycle time modeling, line balancing, equipment utilization, queue behavior, bottleneck analysis, and manufacturing material flow systems.
• Ability to translate factory layouts and production data into simulation models.
• Strong analytical and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Siemens Plant Simulation, Factory Simulation, or similar tools.
• Experience with CAD-based factory layouts or manufacturing layout tools.
• Exposure to MES systems, SAP, or production routing systems.
• Experience with automated manufacturing equipment and material handling systems.
• Background in aerospace, EV, or high-rate manufacturing environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety-sensitive role requiring a successful background check and pre-employment and random drug screening.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs.
• Equal opportunity workplace focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Pay-for-performance compensation structure.