Dynamics Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States

Salary: $110,000–$140,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops and mass-produces high-power satellite platforms for commercial and U.S. government missions from low Earth orbit to deep space.

What you will do

• Derive loads, environments, requirements, and design criteria for satellite transportation, launch, deployment, and on-orbit operation.
• Plan, coordinate, analyze, and correlate component, subsystem, ground, and flight dynamic tests.
• Develop finite element physics models, simulation workflows, and data-processing tools using Nastran and Python.
• Support vibration, shock, jitter, pointing, vibroacoustic, modal, and coupled-loads analyses.
• Collaborate with design engineers, analysts, and external customers to deliver reliable, mass-producible spacecraft.
• Document simulations and test results, contribute to code reviews, and provide data-driven engineering guidance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, or mathematics.
• At least 1 year of experience in dynamics through industry, research, internships, or academic projects.
• Must be a U.S. person under ITAR or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.
• Ability to solve complex problems with limited supervision and communicate analysis and test insights effectively.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, or mathematics.
• Experience with vibration, shock, modal testing, measurements, structural mechanics, digital signal processing, and statistics.
• Experience with FEMAP, Nastran, Python development, version control, and shared analysis tooling.
• Exposure to coupled loads analysis, Craig-Bampton and superelement reduction, jitter and pointing analysis, Monte Carlo methods, multibody dynamics, LS-DYNA, and vibroacoustic methods.
• Familiarity with HALT/HASS testing and dynamics-driven PCBA failure mechanisms.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced environment at a high-growth Series D-funded aerospace company.
• Paid time off and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life insurance and paid parental leave.
• Equity in the company and additional employee benefits.
• Non-traditional career paths and reasonable accommodations are supported.