Lead Electrical Engineer (Avionics)

Location: On-site in St Petersburg, Florida or Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Company

hirify.global designs, engineers, and manufactures certified avionics systems for safety-critical commercial and military aviation applications.

What you will do

• Design, verify, integrate, sustain, upgrade, and manage obsolescence for circuit card assemblies from concept through implementation.
• Develop and review electrical schematics, support PCB layout, select components, perform circuit simulation, and complete product testing.
• Create design descriptions, requirements traceability, bills of materials, PCB data, trade studies, and complete technical data packages.
• Plan and execute board-level test procedures, design reviews, certification activities, troubleshooting, and root-cause failure investigations.
• Identify high-risk circuit functions and lead early prototyping, simulation, and risk-mitigation activities.
• Coordinate with software, mechanical, FPGA firmware, test, certification, project management, customers, vendors, and other engineering disciplines while mentoring junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 10 years of relevant experience, or a graduate degree with at least 8 years of related experience.
• Experience designing analog, digital, power, and high-speed circuits, including high-reliability electronics.
• Experience with CCA and PCB design, schematic capture, layout constraints, simulation, testing, and troubleshooting; experience with Altium, Xpedition, OrCAD, or HyperLynx is relevant.
• Knowledge of RTCA DO-160 guidance and commercial aviation engineering design standards.
• Experience with product, system-level, environmental, and certification testing; FPGA firmware or DO-254 experience is an advantage.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, collaboration, leadership, scheduling, costing, and technical communication skills, including the ability to support geographically dispersed teams and travel when required.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a safety-critical aviation environment supporting commercial, military, and rotorcraft platforms.
• Collaborate in a multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed engineering organization.
• Participate in a continuous improvement culture focused on customer ownership, speed, candid communication, and technical innovation.
• Employment includes pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks where permitted by law.
• hirify.global is an Equal Opportunity Employer and an E-Verify employer.