Staff Aerostructures Design Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in Dallas, Texas or San Diego, California, United States

Company

hirify.global develops next-generation autonomous aircraft, including the UAV platform supported by the X-BAT Engineering team.

What you will do

• Design and develop primary and secondary structural components and assemblies for an autonomous UAV platform.
• Execute the full design lifecycle, including conceptual development, CAD modeling, detailed design, and drawing release.
• Perform hand stress and strain calculations with limited basic FEA analysis.
• Collaborate with aerodynamics, propulsion, avionics, payload, and manufacturing teams on airframe interfaces and system integration.
• Support coupon, subcomponent, and system-level structural validation, as well as build, flight-test, and deployment activities.
• Prepare drawings, interface definitions, analysis reports, and other design documentation in accordance with aerospace standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in aircraft structural design or closely related aerospace structures.
• Experience designing and releasing structural components in development or production environments.
• Working knowledge of composite and metallic structures, fasteners, bonded joints, load paths, GD&T, tolerance stackups, and DFMA.
• Proficiency with CAD tools such as NX, CATIA, SolidWorks, or similar.
• Strong written and verbal technical communication skills; ability to work in a fast-paced, high-ownership engineering environment.

Nice to have

• Ability to obtain an S//SAR-level security clearance.
• M.S. degree in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience with UAV, DoD, or aerospace vehicle programs and aerospace standards such as MIL-STD, ASME Y14.5, or FAA requirements.
• Experience supporting hardware through testing, failure analysis, and design iteration.
• Experience with composite design and manufacturing methods or FEA tools such as ANSYS, Abaqus, or NASTRAN.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee position within the X-BAT Division’s Aerostructures Engineering team.
• Hands-on design work with cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, and flight-test teams.
• Participation in technical design reviews and discussions with increasing ownership of flight-critical designs.