Design Engineer (Advanced Energy Hardware)

Location: Los Angeles, California; full-time onsite presence five days a week at the Hawthorne facility

Salary: $120,000–$150,000 per year, plus stock options

Company

hirify.global builds AI-native manufacturing systems that integrate software, hardware, and physics to produce industrial-scale parts through advanced manufacturing.

What you will do

• Design and redesign energy hardware for turbines, rotating machinery, heat exchangers, thermal management, valves, manifolds, pressure vessels, burners, combustors, and fuel delivery systems.
• Develop component-level understanding of requirements, performance drivers, and system constraints across energy generation, transmission, and storage programs.
• Reimagine parts from first principles by applying additive manufacturing to create new geometries, consolidate assemblies, improve performance, and reduce cost or lead time.
• Evaluate concepts based on materials, tolerances, thermal and structural behavior, manufacturability, qualification, and production scalability.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to establish feasibility and execution plans.
• Work directly with customer engineering teams, identify new application areas, and provide feedback for product, process, and technology roadmaps.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience in power generation, oil and gas, nuclear, renewable energy, or a related advanced energy industry.
• Experience designing or analyzing turbomachinery, thermal systems, fluid systems, pressure-bearing hardware, or high-performance structural components.
• Systems-level understanding of complex mechanical hardware and component integration within larger assemblies.
• Ability to work onsite full-time, five days per week, in Hawthorne, Los Angeles.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with metal 3D printing and design for additive manufacturing.
• Experience with design for manufacturing, hardware qualification, production ramp, and producibility.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Strong first-principles reasoning and comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, diverse, collaborative culture focused on learning and data-driven decisions.
• Significant stock option package and employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance, traditional and Roth 401(k), paid vacation, sick leave, and company holidays.
• Relocation assistance, paid parental leave, and extended transition support for the birthing parent.
• Flexible work hours, catered daily meals, casual dress, and regular team-building events.