Staff Engineer, Structural Analysis (Aerospace)

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

Salary: $136,730–$205,096 per year, plus bonus, benefits, and equity for regular employees

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense technology company developing intelligent systems, including autonomy software, unmanned aircraft, and simulation technologies.

What you will do

• Build and refine finite element models to evaluate UAV components and airframe structures.
• Perform static, modal, fatigue, and vibration analyses, including hand calculations to validate results.
• Optimize lightweight structures for strength, weight, safety, and manufacturability with design engineers.
• Support structural test planning for quasi-static, vibration, and shock validation.
• Analyze flight telemetry and structural test data to improve model accuracy and correlate predictions with performance.
• Define load cases, material properties, and design margins, and present analysis reports and technical recommendations.

Requirements

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in structural analysis, finite element modeling, or aircraft loads analysis.
• Experience with FEA tools such as ANSYS, NASTRAN, HyperWorks, or similar.
• Strong ability to perform structural strength, stability, and fatigue hand calculations.
• Knowledge of composite materials, lightweight aerospace structures, and mechanical testing methods.
• Proficiency with Excel, MATLAB, Python, or similar data analysis tools; ability to collaborate across engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• Experience with aircraft structural design, UAV airframe development, aerospace testing, modal analysis, or composite modeling.
• Exposure to NX, SolidWorks, Teamcenter, PLM tools, aerospace standards, or structural certification processes.
• Ability to obtain S//SAR-level security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time regular employment with bonus, benefits, and equity.
• Compensation varies based on skills, experience, licenses, certifications, and work location.
• Offers are contingent on a cleared background and may include a reference check.
• Work takes place in a fast-paced, high-tech aerospace engineering environment.

Hiring process

• Applications may be supported by AI-assisted review, resume analysis, and response assessment.
• Final hiring decisions are made by humans.