Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Los Angeles, with the facility located in Torrance, California. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees, asylees, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations under export-control regulations.

Salary: $140,000–$185,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is a Series C clean-energy startup developing mass-producible, inherently safe microreactors for terrestrial, underwater, and space applications.

What you will do

• Own and develop conventional and special manufacturing processes for critical reactor subsystems.
• Participate in design reviews and assess part and assembly manufacturability, tolerances, form, fit, and inspection capabilities.
• Collaborate with design, materials, production, machining, maintenance, quality, and engineering teams to drive design-for-manufacturing improvements.
• Develop process controls, equipment, work instructions, factory layouts, tooling, and assembly fixtures for the R&D facility.
• Analyze manufacturing discrepancies, lead root-cause investigations, and implement corrective actions across development, production, testing, integration, and field operations.
• Train technicians, engineers, and leaders through process-improvement workshops and technical briefings.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or physics.
• 5+ years of experience in special-process manufacturing, process qualification, aerospace or nuclear superalloys, hazardous materials, production engineering, reliability engineering, work instructions, or related project and research work.
• Experience creating work instructions, tracking supplier BOM components, and defining or designing tooling and assembly fixtures using CAD.
• Knowledge of PLM, ERP, MES, and related manufacturing planning and management systems.
• Experience with manufacturing processes or inspections such as welding, brazing, heat treatment, additive manufacturing, coatings, hydroforming, non-destructive testing, CMM, or other inspection technologies.
• Must meet U.S. export-control eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or additional professional experience in electrical or aerospace engineering.
• Experience with factory layouts, GD&T, NX CAD, fluid, gas, or high-voltage systems.
• Experience with test instrumentation and control components, project leadership, and high-impact manufacturing improvements.
• Strong project management, communication, troubleshooting, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a significant stock option package.
• Work in a 322,000-square-foot facility supporting collaboration, R&D, and production.
• Values include systems thinking, customer focus, challenging convention, in-person collaboration, and operating effectively under uncertainty.
• Opportunity to develop nuclear reactor production capabilities from prototype through serialized production.