Avionics Hardware Development Engineer (Space)

Location: On-site in El Segundo, California, United States. The role requires U.S. work authorization and U.S. person status because of ITAR-controlled technology.

Salary: $105,000–$157,658 per year for Engineer I; $119,543–$172,673 per year for Engineer II.

Company

hirify.global develops commercial space infrastructure, including in-orbit pharmaceutical processing payloads, reentry capsules, heat shields, and satellite buses.

What you will do

• Develop mixed-signal designs through requirements definition, design, qualification, and release to production.
• Design electrical circuit boards and support avionics architecture trade studies, device selection, analyses, and roadmap planning.
• Perform design-for-test, design-for-manufacture, cost, risk, and root-cause analyses.
• Test hardware through thermal, vibration, shock, TVAC, and EMI environments.
• Write vehicle-level integration test plans to validate flight hardware.
• Develop avionics products such as flight computers, networking systems, star trackers, reaction wheels, payload controllers, battery packs, solar chargers, and RF transceivers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or a related field.
• 3+ years of direct electronics hardware design experience, including schematic capture, PCB layout, and board bring-up.
• Experience developing flight hardware circuit boards from schematic capture through functional testing.
• Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, function generators, digital multimeters, and power supplies.
• Understanding of analog and digital filtering, mixed-signal design, signal integrity, power, grounding, board layout, sensors, and actuators.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States and qualify as a U.S. person for ITAR-controlled technology access.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering flight avionics for aircraft, launch vehicles, or space applications.
• Experience with Altium Designer, environmental testing, and launch vehicle avionics integration.
• Experience with instrumentation, data acquisition, serial interfaces, accelerometers, and 4–20 mA sensors.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with flexible paid time off and 12 paid holidays.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance with FSA and employer-matched HSA options.
• Parental leave, family-building benefits, wellness reimbursement, and sponsored One Medical memberships.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% immediately vested employer match and long-term incentive compensation.
• Relocation support may be available for new hires, along with meals, team events, and complimentary EV charging.