Junior Electrical Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, United States; travel may be required to support mission and project partners.

Salary: $120,000–$140,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides engineering support for spacecraft, payloads, instruments, and space technology demonstrations.

What you will do

• Design, analyze, integrate, test, and manage electrical subsystems for spacecraft, payloads, instruments, and technology demonstrators.
• Define system architectures, electrical block diagrams, interfaces, work products, components, and requirements.
• Develop power budgets, circuit designs, PCB layouts, parts selections, harnesses, analyses, and ground support equipment.
• Create and review schematics and drawings, coordinate PCB fabrication, and apply NASA standards and best practices.
• Evaluate EEE parts for spaceflight, radiation, total ionizing dose, and single-event effects environments.
• Write and perform verification and validation procedures while coordinating with multidisciplinary engineering, government, contractor, and mission partner teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a similar technical discipline.
• 1–3 years of experience in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience with electrical engineering, avionics, power generation and distribution, EEE parts, and harnessing for space environments.
• NASA or industry spaceflight experience and detailed knowledge of Altium for electrical design and layout.
• Experience reading and reviewing schematics and drawings, plus electrical verification and validation, pinout checks, safe-to-mate procedures, and Environmental Stress Screening.
• Must be able to pass a Federal Background Check.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of NASA standards and best practices for electrical design and EEE parts.
• Understanding of electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility.
• Experience with FPGAs, Confluence, Jira, or customer relationship management.
• Experience assigning work and managing personnel or tasks.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position with a structured engineering and mission-support environment.
• Collaboration with project managers, systems engineers, scientists, technical staff, government representatives, contractors, and mission partners.
• Work includes adapting to changing schedules, competing priorities, deadlines, and unpredictable mission events.
• Travel may be required for mission and project support.