Senior Avionics Ground Systems Engineer (Electrical) (Aerospace)

Location: Redondo Beach, United States; onsite. Applicants must be U.S. Persons or eligible to obtain an export license under ITAR and EAR regulations.

Salary: $160,000–$185,000 per year, with potential stock options and additional full-time benefits.

Company

hirify.global Space develops in-space transportation vehicles and propulsion systems for orbital transport, payload deployment, and precision reentry.

What you will do

• Own electrical ground-system hardware from architecture and schematic development through fabrication, integration, validation, and deployment.
• Develop power, instrumentation, communications, and data-acquisition architectures for ground support equipment.
• Design and integrate rack-level equipment, harnesses, enclosures, and vehicle interface hardware.
• Develop and troubleshoot command, telemetry, data-acquisition, and control interfaces between ground systems and flight hardware.
• Perform electrical testing, system integration, fault isolation, and real-time troubleshooting during vehicle tests and launch campaigns.
• Define and procure COTS instrumentation, networking, computing, and interface hardware while maintaining system documentation.

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 5 years of experience designing, building, and deploying electrical ground support equipment, avionics integration hardware, or other high-reliability electrical systems.
• Strong knowledge of signal integrity, grounding, shielding, EMI/EMC, and power distribution.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience specifying, procuring, integrating, and testing electrical, instrumentation, networking, and computing hardware.
• Familiarity with Ethernet, RS-422, CAN, TCP/IP, CAT5, and serial protocols.
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced development and test environments.

Nice to have

• 7+ years of relevant electrical ground-system or avionics integration experience.
• Experience with rack-level systems, harnessing, enclosures, avionics or RF products, and industrial electrical safety.
• Experience with NX, Python, MATLAB, test automation, controls software, schematic capture, or EPlan.
• Experience supporting launch campaigns, propulsion testing, or integrated vehicle operations.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on hardware development in a fast-paced aerospace environment.
• Cross-functional collaboration with avionics, RF, propulsion, software, structures, test, and integration teams.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage for eligible full-time hires.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan and potential long-term incentives in the form of stock options.

Hiring process

• Application and resume review.
• Introductory and technical phone interviews.
• Onsite interview followed by an offer decision.