Vehicle Structures Engineer I (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Salary: $90,000–$136,000 USD annually

Company

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

What you will do

• Conceptualize structural load paths, complex structures, and adjacent system packaging for Terran R.
• Review static and dynamic loads, material properties, test data, and structural system requirements.
• Analyze and size primary and secondary flight structures, including thrust structures, propellant tanks, interstages, and fairings.
• Design components using NX and TeamCenter, perform analysis with Nastran, ANSYS, and hand calculations, and create and release drawings.
• Develop and support hardware test campaigns, including test integration, operation, and evaluation of results.
• Support manufacturing process development and fabrication while owning designs from requirements through production.

Requirements

• 0–2+ years of experience in a design engineering role.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline.
• Experience with industry-standard CAD packages such as NX, Creo, or SolidWorks.
• Working knowledge of structural analysis, finite element methods, industry analysis tools, and testing.
• Fundamental knowledge of structural strength, stability, and fatigue failure mechanisms.
• Fundamental knowledge of additive and traditional manufacturing processes, plus full life-cycle project ownership experience.

Nice to have

• Extensive experience with NX and TeamCenter.
• Expertise using Nastran and ANSYS.
• Experience with GD&T and drafting.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on ownership of flight hardware across the full design, build, and test lifecycle.
• Collaboration across structures, mechanisms, manufacturing, propulsion, software, avionics, and other functions.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave, parental leave, and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Fast-paced environment emphasizing autonomy, ownership, technical rigor, and creative problem-solving.