Director, Electrical Engineering (Aerospace & Defense)

Location: El Segundo, California, United States; full-time, on-site

Salary: $246,000–$308,000 annual base compensation, excluding bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops defense products powered by Coherent Distributed Networks for warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams.

What you will do

• Build, lead, and develop a growing team of power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electrical engineers.
• Define hiring plans, technical capabilities, engineering standards, design reviews, staffing priorities, and resource allocation across programs.
• Lead electronic system architectures and trade studies covering performance, SWaP-C, manufacturability, reliability, schedule, and qualification requirements.
• Provide technical leadership across high-speed digital, analog and mixed-signal electronics, power conversion and distribution, PCB design, signal and power integrity, and EMI/EMC.
• Resolve cross-disciplinary issues involving FPGA and embedded software interfaces, RF circuits, thermal design, mechanical packaging, manufacturing, and test.
• Lead hardware integration, verification, qualification, production transition, failure investigations, field support, and technical engagement with customers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and 15+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Experience leading teams developing complex, high-reliability electronics for aerospace, defense, radar, electronic warfare, missile, space, or similarly demanding applications.
• Deep expertise in at least one electrical engineering discipline and breadth across high-speed digital, analog and mixed-signal, and power electronics.
• Experience with complex electronic systems incorporating FPGAs, processors, memory, data converters, high-speed interfaces, power conversion, and analog signal chains.
• Strong knowledge of PCB design, component selection, signal and power integrity, grounding, EMI/EMC, derating, and design for manufacturability.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Experience rapidly scaling an electrical engineering team or developing avionics and RF sensor electronics.
• Experience with signal-integrity or power-integrity tools such as HyperLynx, Sigrity, ADS, or Ansys SIwave.
• Experience with DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, JESD204, SERDES, or LVDS interfaces in high-reliability systems.
• Experience establishing reusable architectures, design standards, qualification approaches, technical review processes, or managing external electronics suppliers.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits fully paid by the company.
• 401(k) with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay, plus FSA, HSA, and life insurance.
• Free daily lunch, no-meeting Fridays, unlimited PTO, and a casual dress code.
• Competitive base salary, pre-IPO stock options, relocation assistance, and planned annual bonuses.
• Work with a growing organization of approximately 350 employees across five global offices.