Electrical Engineering Team Lead (Aerospace)

Location: San Francisco, United States; onsite work at the Northern California headquarters

Base salary: $160,000–$210,000 USD per year, plus equity and benefits

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates advanced satellites that provide secure, dedicated communications networks for enterprises, governments, and the US military.

What you will do

• Directly manage and grow a team of junior and senior electrical engineers.
• Define spacecraft compute, networking, and power distribution requirements and architectures with multidisciplinary teams.
• Oversee in-house hardware and systems design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging.
• Manage hardware development schedules and align them with overall spacecraft program milestones.
• Own technical relationships with component suppliers and ensure robust, high-performance solutions.
• Support recruiting, production, and mission operations for avionics components and spacecraft hardware.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional experience with fast-paced product design cycles.
• 5+ years of board-level electronics hardware design experience from concept through production.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and testing hardware from scratch.
• Experience building and managing engineering teams and communicating across disciplines.
• Strong analog and mixed-signal circuit design skills.
• US Citizenship, lawful permanent residency, or other protected US status is required due to space technology export regulations.

Nice to have

• Experience with signal conditioning, sensors, electromechanical actuators, power switches, embedded computers, or related hardware.
• Experience with FPGAs, microcontrollers, RS-485, SPI, Ethernet, or I2C.
• Strong knowledge of C, C++, or Python.
• Radiation effects knowledge and environmental testing experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity through incentive stock options.
• Company-subsidized healthcare, disability insurance, and life insurance.
• 401(k) retirement planning and flexible paid time off.
• Free catered meals onsite.
• Inclusive workplace focused on diverse perspectives.