Senior Materials & Processes Engineer, Turbomachinery (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Salary: $124,000–$186,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops reusable rockets and launch systems, including the Terran R vehicle, along with the manufacturing infrastructure required to produce them.

What you will do

• Own materials and processes activities for reusable liquid-propulsion turbomachinery products, materials systems, and disciplines.
• Qualify turbomachinery materials and products for flight and reuse.
• Develop, implement, and maintain technical specifications and engineering standards.
• Lead statistically driven experimental design and process-improvement campaigns.
• Collaborate with materials, laboratory, design, manufacturing, quality, and propulsion engineering teams on qualification, production, compliance, and failure analysis.
• Support fracture-control boards and company leadership in addressing risks and enabling vehicle reuse.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in materials science, materials engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant turbomachinery materials experience.
• Experience with propulsion hardware materials and processes, including material selection, qualification, damage tolerance, inspections, risk assessments, and failure analysis.
• Experience qualifying materials and parts for laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing or traditional forming processes such as wrought materials, forgings, or castings.
• Strong accountability, collaboration, execution, and interdisciplinary relationship-building skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment on iterating turbomachinery products and processes while supporting manufacturing scale-up and reuse.

Nice to have

• Deep knowledge of turbomachinery for reusable aerospace or rocket engines.
• Expertise with nickel, ferrous, aluminum, or titanium alloy systems.
• Metallic additive manufacturing, laser powder bed fusion, welding, forging, casting, surface modification, or coating processes.
• Knowledge of statistical experimental design and design allowable calculation methodologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomous work with ownership and cross-functional impact.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave.
• Parental leave.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Inclusive workplace committed to accountability, technical rigor, and collaboration.