Senior Autonomous Flight Termination System Hardware Engineer (Hypersonic Defense)

Location: Torrance, California, or Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States

Company

hirify.global develops advanced defense systems and long-range hypersonic strike vehicles in an early-stage, hardware-focused environment.

What you will do

• Design pulsed power electronics for flight termination and firing systems, including high-voltage energy storage, switching, and delivery circuits.
• Lead the architecture and implementation of electronic safe-and-arm devices and related safety-critical hardware.
• Develop initiation and firing circuits with deterministic performance, redundancy, and fault tolerance.
• Integrate AFTS hardware with avionics, GNC, flight software, and systems engineering teams.
• Model, analyze, qualify, and flight-test hardware under dynamic and extreme environmental conditions.
• Support hardware bring-up, debugging, failure analysis, root-cause investigations, and technical trade decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience designing and validating pulsed power, high-voltage, or firing-system electronics for aerospace, defense, or other high-reliability applications.
• Strong experience with energy storage, high-speed/high-current switching, and pulsed power circuit design.
• Experience with electronic safe-and-arm devices, initiation systems, or similar safety-critical hardware.
• Proficiency with circuit design, simulation, and analysis tools such as SPICE or MATLAB/Simulink.
• Experience with hardware bring-up, environmental testing, system safety, redundancy, fault-tolerant design, EMI/EMC, and thermal performance.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, hardware-driven environment with a high flight cadence.
• Direct ownership and collaboration across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Generous benefits package.
• Employment may require access to classified information or restricted U.S. Government sites, systems, or information.
• Access to export-controlled information is subject to applicable U.S. export licensing and government authorization requirements.