Avionics Harness Design Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Torrance, California, or Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States. The role may require access to classified information, restricted U.S. Government sites, systems, or export-controlled information, with applicable citizenship or eligibility requirements.

Company

hirify.global is an early-stage aerospace and defense company developing and delivering advanced defense systems.

What you will do

• Design, route, and document electrical harnesses for missile and vehicle system integration.
• Generate wiring diagrams, schematics, and harness assembly drawings according to aerospace standards.
• Select wires, connectors, backshells, shielding, and protection materials for environmental and system requirements.
• Collaborate with avionics, power, structural, propulsion, and integration teams on vehicle design.
• Develop harness bills of materials and improve manufacturability, efficiency, and quality at scale.
• Support harness building, installation, troubleshooting, integration, and testing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical, mechanical, aerospace engineering, or a related field.
• At least 2 years of cable harness design experience in aerospace, defense, or other high-reliability hardware systems.
• Proficiency with CAD or ECAD tools such as CATIA, Creo, SolidWorks Electrical, Capital, RapidHarness, or AutoCAD.
• Strong knowledge of aerospace wiring standards, including IPC/WHMA-A-620, NASA-STD-8739, or MIL-SPEC requirements.
• Experience with harness manufacturing, assembly, testing, and high-thermal, small-volume environments.
• Ability to satisfy applicable U.S. Government, security-clearance, citizenship, export-control, or other eligibility requirements if required for the position.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-paced, hardware-rich environment with significant ownership.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams on mission-critical aerospace hardware.
• Generous benefits package.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation throughout the hiring process.