Principal Electrical Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Full-time, on-site in El Segundo, California, United States

Salary: $190,000–$260,000 base compensation annually, excluding bonuses, equity, and benefits

Company

hirify.global develops defense products powered by Coherent Distributed Networks for aerospace, military, commercial aviation, and border protection applications.

What you will do

• Serve as the technical authority for power electronics and analog board design across multiple programs.
• Lead architecture trades for power distribution, DC/DC conversion, analog front ends, sensing, filtering, control, protection, and monitoring circuitry.
• Design and simulate power and analog circuits while guiding PCB layout, grounding, shielding, thermal management, isolation, and high-current power paths.
• Resolve complex cross-disciplinary issues involving power, controls, EMI/EMC, and system integration.
• Lead design margin evaluation, derating, tolerance analysis, thermal assessment, and failure analysis for mission-critical hardware.
• Provide technical authority across integration, verification, qualification testing, production transition, and field support.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and 15+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Technical leadership experience with complex power and analog electronics for aerospace, defense, avionics, radar, electronic warfare, communications, space, or other high-reliability systems.
• Expertise in power electronics, DC/DC conversion, regulation, protection, sequencing, filtering, power distribution, thermal management, and design margin.
• Expertise in low-noise analog design, grounding, shielding, signal conditioning, filtering, op amps, references, data converters, and sensor interfaces.
• Experience with EMI/EMC mitigation, mixed power and analog PCB layouts, hardware verification, qualification, production transition, failure analysis, and field support.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
• Experience with avionics platforms and low- and high-voltage aerospace applications, including 28 VDC and 270 VDC.
• Familiarity with RTCA/DO-160, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, and MIL-STD-1275.
• Experience establishing engineering design standards, analysis templates, qualification approaches, or review processes.

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.
• Unlimited PTO, free daily lunch, no-meeting Fridays, and a casual dress code.
• Competitive base salary, pre-IPO stock options, relocation assistance, and planned annual bonuses.
• Join a growing organization of approximately 250 employees across five global offices.