Vehicle Structures Engineer II (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Salary: $104,000–$156,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures launch vehicles, including the Terran R rocket, to deliver customer payloads to orbit.

What you will do

• Design primary and secondary flight structures from concept through launch-ready hardware.
• Develop structural load paths, complex structural designs, and adjacent system packaging.
• Review static and dynamic loads, material properties, test data, and structural requirements.
• Perform structural analysis and sizing using hand calculations, Nastran, ANSYS, and other methods.
• Create and release drawings, support fabrication, and optimize designs for additive manufacturing.
• Plan and support hardware test campaigns, including test integration, operation, and result evaluation.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in a full-cycle design engineering role.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Knowledge of structural analysis and testing, from hand calculations to advanced analysis.
• Knowledge of structures strength, stability, and fatigue failure mechanisms.
• Knowledge of additive and traditional manufacturing processes.
• Ability to lead projects independently, work through ambiguity, and collaborate with additive, design, test, and loads and dynamics teams.

Nice to have

• 3+ years of aerospace experience and an advanced engineering degree.
• Experience with NX and Teamcenter.
• Experience using Nastran and ANSYS.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomy, ownership, and direct impact on flight hardware development.
• Hands-on work across design, manufacturing, testing, and multiple structural subsystems.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave, parental leave, and an annual learning and development stipend.