Harness Design Engineer I (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States; onsite at hirify.global's global headquarters. U.S. citizenship is required due to program requirements and ITAR restrictions.

Salary: Base salary of $82,400–$103,000 USD annually. Total compensation, including equity, is $89,350–$115,025 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global is an end-to-end space company developing rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems for commercial, civil, and national security missions.

What you will do

• Design and support electrical harness layouts for spacecraft, including connector and backshell selection, wire selection, shielding, split locations, and harness lengths.
• Generate connector pinout tables from spacecraft interconnect diagrams and maintain harness bills of materials in the PLM system.
• Create documentation for electrical system schematics and harness designs.
• Develop test plans and procedures for avionics subsystems and components.
• Analyze and evaluate avionics circuits for performance, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Participate in internal and customer-facing design reviews and collaborate on electronic assemblies for satellite and spacecraft programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, or another engineering discipline.
• Experience with electrical engineering or avionics.
• U.S. citizenship is required for this role due to program requirements.
• Eligibility to access ITAR-regulated technology is required for work in U.S. offices.
• Ability to work in production areas with prolonged sitting, standing, walking, and computer work, with occasional exposure to moderate noise, dust, and fumes.

Nice to have

• Master’s or PhD in an engineering discipline and experience in aerospace, defense, satellite development, or satellite operations.
• Knowledge of the space environment, orbital mechanics, rigid body dynamics, electronics principles, power electronics, communication systems, signal integrity, and grounding.
• Experience with LTspice, Altium, Siemens Teamcenter, JAMA, or similar requirement management tools.
• Experience testing electrical subsystems and assemblies, including thermal-vacuum, random-vibration, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Experience with instrumentation, interfaces, sensors, power supplies, oscilloscopes, serial devices, accelerometers, thermocouples, RTDs, and 4–20 mA sensors.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive base pay with company stock and an employee stock purchase program offering a 15% discount.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, including HMO, PPO, and a zero-cost HDHP option with an HSA contribution.
• Paid vacation, sick time, holidays, parental leave, disability and life insurance, and a 401(k) with company match.
• Subsidized EV charging, fitness benefits, snacks and beverages, and employee discounts.
• Fast-paced work focused on tight deadlines, teamwork, technical ownership, and ambitious space missions.