Staff Electrical Engineer, Hardware Test (Aerospace)

Location: Seattle, Washington; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops mission-critical aircraft systems, including X-BAT autonomous aircraft and related avionics capabilities.

What you will do

• Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for electrical test equipment supporting X-BAT avionics, power, communications, actuation, and other aircraft subsystems.
• Identify verification risks and capability gaps, then convert them into prioritized investments, platform decisions, development plans, and technical ownership.
• Define reusable architectures for racks, stands, interface units, power and fault insertion, instrumentation, data acquisition, timing, automation, diagnostics, and operator interfaces.
• Lead complex test-equipment programs from requirements, trade studies, and detailed design through build, integration, acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.
• Establish standards for schematics, PCB and harness design, calibration, documentation, safety, and release readiness.
• Partner with systems and design engineering, vendors, integrators, technicians, and cross-functional teams on testability, reliability, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, and technical decisions.

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or a related STEM discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience developing complex electrical hardware, automated test equipment, or multidisciplinary verification systems.
• Experience leading multiple hardware development cycles from ambiguous requirements through release, deployment, and sustained use.
• Deep expertise in several areas including power electronics, analog and digital design, RF and communications, instrumentation, data acquisition, control systems, signal integrity, grounding, or system safety.
• Ability to architect systems spanning custom electronics, commercial instruments, harnesses, embedded control, automation software, mechanical equipment, and facility interfaces.
• Experience with requirements decomposition, interface control, verification planning, design reviews, configuration management, acceptance testing, technical documentation, mentoring, and cross-domain root-cause analysis.

Nice to have

• Experience with aerospace or defense ground-test, qualification-test, hardware-in-the-loop, or production-test systems for flight-critical hardware.
• Experience with aircraft electrical domains such as high-voltage or high-power systems, batteries, motors and drives, RF, avionics networks, sensors, flight controls, or mission systems.
• Knowledge of hazard analysis, FMEA, fault-tree analysis, proof testing, fault insertion, redundancy, safe-state verification, environmental testing, calibration, metrology, or equipment cybersecurity.
• Knowledge of standards such as DO-160, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, IPC, IEEE, or NFPA 70E.
• Eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance if required by the program.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on staff individual-contributor role with broad organizational influence and no direct people-management requirement.
• Work spans schematics, code, hardware, laboratory operations, architecture, technical reviews, mentorship, and reusable platforms.
• Focus on improving equipment reliability, diagnosability, maintainability, availability, calibration, safety, and reuse.
• Opportunity to influence aircraft design through design-for-testability, interface definition, observability, reliability learning, and corrective action.