Sr. EMC Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Hybrid in Hawthorne, California, United States

Salary: $155,000–$200,000 per year

Company

hirify.global designs and builds lunar rovers, power systems, and data networks for sustained operations on the Moon.

What you will do

• Capture avionics requirements, lead EMI/EMC design trades, and integrate designs into rover systems.
• Define electromagnetic environmental, operational, and survivability criteria from system to component level.
• Analyze grounding, bonding, isolation, shielding, emissions, susceptibility, transient protection, RF compatibility, and signal and power integrity.
• Troubleshoot EMI issues from board to system level and operate and automate EMI, RF, and electronics test equipment.
• Create technical documentation including schematics, system diagrams, interface documents, procedures, build orders, and test and anomaly reports.
• Support flight hardware qualification, spacecraft integration testing, production issue resolution, and spacecraft risk management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM-related field.
• 5+ years of experience with EMI/EMC requirements, analysis, design, and testing for spacecraft systems or avionics components; academic and personal projects may apply.
• Experience with LTSpice and circuit analysis using SPICE or equivalent simulation tools.
• Ability to use laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, signal generators, and logic analyzers.
• Ability to read and interpret schematics, PCB layouts, engineering drawings, BOMs, cable harnesses, interface diagrams, and mechanical drawings.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with SMC-S-016 testing requirements and MIL-STD-461 EMC testing.
• Knowledge of electrical safety and commercial EMC compliance standards.
• Experience designing high-power spacecraft avionics, regulators, converters, power-line filters, and high-voltage grounding schemes.
• Experience designing BLDC and PMSM motor controller systems.
• Experience with CAD software.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, direct, transparent, and collaborative engineering environment.
• Equity ownership in the company.
• Medical, dental, vision, and mental health benefits.
• 401(k) plan with company match, flexible PTO, and parental leave.
• Weekly lunch stipend, snacks and beverages, and monthly on-site social hours.

Hiring process

• Application review followed by a recruiter phone interview.
• Video interviews followed by an on-site interview.
• Offer and hiring stages.