Opto-Mechanical Engineer (Analysis)

Location: Redondo Beach, United States; onsite

Salary: $120,000–$180,000 per year, plus potential stock options and benefits.

Company

hirify.global Space develops in-space transportation vehicles and spacecraft services for payload delivery beyond Low Earth Orbit and throughout LEO.

What you will do

• Perform structural and thermal analysis of optical hardware and opto-mechanical assemblies.
• Develop and maintain finite element models for flight and development hardware.
• Support Structural-Thermal-Optical Performance analysis with optical engineers.
• Evaluate alignment sensitivity, detector placement tolerances, boresight stability, wavefront error, and pointing requirements.
• Analyze components including lens barrels, detector mounts, mirror mounts, baffles, mechanisms, and terminal-level optical assemblies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Physics, Optical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 3+ years of experience with structural analysis, mechanical design analysis, FEA, or thermal-mechanical analysis through coursework, internships, research, or professional work.
• Strong understanding of mechanics of materials, dynamics, heat transfer, vibration, and structural behavior.
• Experience with CAD or FEA tools such as NX, SolidWorks, Nastran, ANSYS, SigFit, Femap, or Simcenter 3D.
• Ability to work with mechanical drawings, material properties, fasteners, tolerances, and physical hardware constraints.
• Applicants must be U.S. Persons or eligible to obtain an export license under applicable U.S. export regulations, including ITAR and EAR.

Nice to have

• 5+ years analyzing aerospace, spacecraft, optical payload, camera, telescope, lasercom, or precision instrumentation hardware.
• 3+ years of experience with Structural-Thermal-Optical Performance workflows using SigFit, Zemax OpticStudio, Code V, FRED, MATLAB, Python, or similar tools.
• Experience with lens barrels, mirror mounts, flexures, bonded optics, kinematic mounts, detector mounts, optical benches, or gimbaled assemblies.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment within the Avionics department.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Potential eligibility for long-term incentives in the form of stock options.

Hiring process

• Application and resume review.
• Introductory and technical phone interviews.
• Onsite interview followed by an offer decision.