Sr Dynamic Environments Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Salary: $132,000–$198,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops Terran R launch vehicles and rocket manufacturing systems for delivering customer payloads to orbit.

What you will do

• Analyze Terran R vibration, shock, and acoustic environments, including forcing functions, loads, levels, criteria, and product management.
• Implement and validate dynamics instrumentation and measurement systems with Avionics to capture reliable test and flight data.
• Support test planning and execution for vibration, shock, and acoustic testing.
• Develop payload interface vibration, shock, and acoustic levels, coordinating with Mission Management and customers on specification compliance and improvements.
• Improve analysis processes, hardware and test criteria, and communicate results across the program.
• Collaborate with responsible engineers to improve hardware reliability, robustness, and simplicity while mentoring junior analysts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience working with launch vehicles or rockets.
• Experience performing vibration, shock, and acoustic analysis on a launch vehicle program.
• Experience developing dynamic test levels and criteria.
• Experience with high-speed instrumentation and signal processing.
• Demonstrated ability to drive dynamics issues to closure across mechanical, fluids, or other engineering domains.

Nice to have

• Experience developing analysis toolsets and workflows using custom and commercial software.
• Experience leading anomaly resolutions or failure investigations.
• Experience working on an engineering analysis team through a full program lifecycle.

Culture & Benefits

• High autonomy and ownership in a fast-paced, cross-functional engineering environment.
• Collaboration across Flight Sciences, Stage Engineering, Fluids, Propulsion, Avionics, Test, and Launch teams.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous PTO and sick leave, parental leave, and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Equal opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodation support.