Electrical Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Oregon, United States; On-site

Company

hirify.global is building an autonomous aircraft network using long-range VTOL aircraft, autonomy software, and operational infrastructure for time-sensitive medical logistics between hospitals, laboratories, and healthcare facilities.

What you will do

• Design the aircraft avionics, electrical power, communications, grounding, shielding, isolation, and EMI/EMC architecture.
• Create system block diagrams, schematics, wiring diagrams, connector pinouts, harness drawings, interface-control documents, and acceptance-test procedures.
• Select and size wiring, connectors, fuses, contactors, regulators, power-distribution components, and protective devices; perform voltage-drop, current, thermal, power-budget, and failure-mode analyses.
• Integrate flight controllers, propulsion systems, batteries, sensors, radios, navigation systems, actuators, payload systems, and onboard computers across high-voltage and low-voltage interfaces.
• Design or oversee custom PCBs, interface boards, power-distribution boards, and test equipment, and support bench, hardware-in-the-loop, ground, and flight testing.
• Diagnose electrical, avionics, communications, and power-system failures; review harnesses and assemblies; manage configuration control, component obsolescence, lead-time risks, and design changes while collaborating with mechanical, aerospace, controls, software, manufacturing, and flight-test engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechatronics, or a related field.
• Experience designing and integrating electrical or avionics systems.
• Strong understanding of power electronics, embedded systems, digital communications, and electrical protection.
• Ability to create and review schematics, wiring diagrams, pinout tables, and engineering drawings.
• Experience using oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads, and other laboratory equipment.
• Experience troubleshooting complex electrical systems at component and system levels.
• Ability to work directly with hardware and support hands-on aircraft integration.
• Strong technical documentation and configuration-management habits.

Nice to have

• Experience with electric aircraft, drones, robotics, automotive systems, spacecraft, or other safety-critical hardware.
• Experience with high-voltage and high-current lithium battery systems.
• Experience integrating motors, ESCs, battery-management systems, contactors, and power-distribution units.
• Experience with CAN, DroneCAN, UART, SPI, I²C, Ethernet, RS-232, or RS-485.
• Experience with PX4, ArduPilot, CubePilot, or similar autopilot ecosystems.
• Experience designing PCBs in Altium, KiCad, OrCAD, or a similar platform.
• Familiarity with EMI/EMC testing, aerospace grounding and shielding practices, environmental qualification, electrical derating, FMEA, and fault-tolerant design.
• Understanding of aviation development standards such as DO-160, DO-254, or SAE aerospace practices.
• Experience taking an electrical system from prototype through low-rate production.

Culture & Benefits

• Early-stage, small, fast-moving environment with direct ownership of engineering foundations and system-level impact.
• Work on the path from aircraft prototype to a real medical logistics network.
• Emphasis on agency, ownership, engineering judgment, urgency, and evidence of building hard technical systems.
• Focus on making aircraft electrical architecture safe, understandable, testable, maintainable, and production-ready.