Senior Electrical Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Los Angeles Air Force Base, El Segundo, California; in-person/hybrid, no remote

Salary: $110,000+ annually, depending on experience, certifications, and qualifications.

Company

hirify.global provides professional services and SETA support for aerospace, defense, and space systems programs.

What you will do

• Provide electrical and systems engineering support across the acquisition, development, integration, test, launch, operations, sustainment, and modernization lifecycle.
• Analyze spacecraft, payload, ground-system, communications, sensor, power, avionics, RF, signal-processing, telemetry, and command-and-control subsystems.
• Develop, decompose, validate, verify, and maintain system requirements and technical traceability.
• Evaluate electrical interfaces, system architectures, technical baselines, specifications, design documentation, and integration plans.
• Review contractor engineering products, test plans, verification reports, technical analyses, and interface-control documentation.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks, anomalies, discrepancies, dependencies, and system-level issues while coordinating with government, contractor, operational, and mission-partner organizations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• At least five years of relevant electrical, aerospace, space systems, defense, or systems engineering experience.
• Experience with electrical or electronic systems, spacecraft, payloads, ground systems, communications systems, sensors, or mission-processing systems.
• Experience with requirements management, systems integration, verification and validation, technical reviews, risk management, configuration management, and interface control.
• U.S. citizenship and an active DoD clearance are required; the posting specifies active Top Secret clearance and also references active Secret clearance or the ability to obtain one.
• Strong technical writing, briefing, analytical, communication, independent-work, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with Space Force, Air Force, SSC/SN, missile warning, OPIR, SBIRS, missile tracking, or space-based sensor programs.
• Experience with spacecraft electrical power systems, avionics, RF systems, communications, signal processing, telemetry, command and control, or sensor fusion.
• Familiarity with Cameo, DOORS, Jira, Confluence, eMASS, OPIR, SBIRS, FORGE, or related mission systems.
• Active TS/SCI clearance and experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time professional services position supporting Space Systems Command and the Space Sensing Directorate.
• Work is performed in person or through a hybrid arrangement at Los Angeles Air Force Base; remote work is not available.
• Occasional travel may be required, approximately 10%.
• Work includes participation in technical reviews, engineering review boards, configuration control boards, integrated product teams, and technical interchange meetings.