Additive Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Redondo Beach, United States; onsite. ITAR eligibility is required: candidates must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, protected individuals, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Salary: $100,000–$160,000 per year, with potential stock options and benefits for full-time hires.

Company

hirify.global Space develops in-space transportation vehicles and propulsion systems for orbital transport, constellation deployment, precision reentry, and missions beyond Low Earth Orbit.

What you will do

• Develop the next iterations of additive-manufactured propulsion hardware with design, analysis, materials, responsible, and manufacturing engineers.
• Operate, optimize, troubleshoot, and calibrate additive platforms while coordinating improvements with OEMs.
• Improve printer robustness and repeatability using machine-issue analysis, failed-build investigations, sensor monitoring, and in-process data acquisition.
• Develop additive processes and materials, laser-parameter strategies, manufacturing procedures, quality verifications, reports, and manuals.
• Support proof, leak, flow, and fit testing for additive hardware verification and validation.
• Manage the manufacturing process from additive production through test hand-off.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, welding, aerospace, or a related engineering discipline.
• At least 2 years of hands-on manufacturing-environment experience.
• Experience with design for manufacturability in additive and traditional manufacturing processes.
• Strong understanding of thermal and structural fundamentals as applied to metallic materials.
• Must meet applicable ITAR eligibility requirements for work on U.S. Government space technology.

Nice to have

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with additive machines, especially printing aerospace parts.
• Industrial or developmental additive manufacturing experience with metallic materials.
• Experience creating multifactorial design-of-experiments studies and processing associated data.
• Experience developing laser parameters for productivity and feature quality.
• Experience optimizing additively manufactured bladed components such as turbines, blisks, or impellers.

Culture & Benefits

• Onsite work in Redondo Beach within the Manufacturing department.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage for eligible full-time hires.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Potential long-term incentives in the form of stock options.
• Equal opportunity employment based on merit, competence, and qualifications.

Hiring process

• Application submission and resume review.
• Introductory phone interview followed by technical phone interviews.
• Onsite interview and offer stage.