Firmware Engineer (Electrical) (Evergreen)

Location: On-site in Phoenix, Arizona or Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Travel up to 10% may be required.

Company

hirify.global designs, engineers, and manufactures certified avionics systems for safety-critical commercial and military aviation, including surveillance products such as TCAS, Mode S transponders, and ADS-B.

What you will do

• Design, develop, verify, and maintain FPGA-based firmware for TCAS, transponder, and surveillance avionics applications.
• Develop RTL designs using VHDL and/or Verilog, and perform simulation, debugging, validation, and performance analysis.
• Execute requirements-based verification and document results in accordance with program and certification requirements.
• Apply DO-254 processes throughout the airborne electronic hardware development lifecycle.
• Create hardware design and certification documentation, including requirements, design, configuration, and compliance artifacts.
• Collaborate with hardware, systems, RF, software, quality, certification, program, and customer teams on design reviews and technical problem resolution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with 4–9 years of relevant experience, or a graduate degree with at least 5 years of related experience.
• Experience with FPGA and firmware design, systems engineering principles, requirements definition and verification, integration, testing, and technical documentation.
• Hands-on experience designing and developing avionics products, RF systems, or sensor systems.
• Experience with FPGA development using VHDL and/or Verilog.
• Ability to work on-site in Phoenix, Arizona, or Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Nice to have

• Experience with aerospace hardware/software systems, DO-254, DO-160, or DO-178.
• Exposure to Model-Based Systems Engineering, RTOS integration, RF design, L-band systems, and RF FPGA principles.
• Experience with design for cost, design for manufacturability, production support, or multi-program engineering.
• Pilot License or Part 107 certificate.
• Ability to lead and collaborate in multidisciplinary engineering teams with minimal oversight.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on certified, safety-critical avionics deployed across commercial, military, rotorcraft, and emerging UAM eVTOL platforms.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering, quality, certification, and program teams.
• Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
• Pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks may apply where permitted by law.
• hirify.global is an E-Verify employer.