Senior Structural Engineer - Simulation (Julia)

Location: Portland, Oregon. Candidates are strongly preferred to relocate to Portland; at minimum, the role requires the ability to travel to Portland intermittently. Relocation assistance is available if needed.

Salary: $150,000–$250,000 per year, plus company equity.

Company

hirify.global is a public benefit renewable energy and ocean technology company developing technologies that capture low-cost ocean energy for computing and renewable fuels.

What you will do

• Maintain and advance a Julia-based reduced-order beam element analysis tool, including new load cases, bug fixes, and performance optimization.
• Build automation pipelines connecting reduced-order models with high-fidelity FEA shell element models.
• Define and analyze marine load environments such as wave slamming, tow loads, crane lifts, and fatigue with Marine Ops, Manufacturing, and Mechanical Engineering.
• Own high-accuracy mass estimation for candidate devices and evolving design concepts.
• Verify automated results with classical hand calculations and Nastran-based FEA.
• Manage large-scale simulation data and cloud compute workloads using Docker, GCP, PostgreSQL, and Python.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, or equivalent expertise.
• 3+ years of experience combining structural analysis with software or tooling development.
• Production-quality coding experience in Julia and Python.
• Strong fundamentals in structural engineering, preferably involving large-scale steel structures.
• Familiarity with marine load environments, including hydrodynamics, mooring, or offshore structures.
• Experience with Git, Docker, cloud computing environments, and Nastran or similar structural solvers.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree focused on computational mechanics or structural dynamics.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or relational databases for large simulation datasets.
• Experience building human-in-the-loop automation tools for engineering workflows.
• Ability to use AI for code generation while identifying errors through technical judgment.
• Curiosity about device dynamics beyond structural analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• Creative, scrappy, collaborative environment organized around idea meritocracy.
• Flexible working hours, substantial autonomy, work-life balance, and unlimited PTO.
• Relocation assistance for a move to Portland.
• Equity participation for employees.
• Company-paid gold-level PPO health insurance, dental and vision insurance, disability insurance, and access to 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA accounts.