Senior Avionics Hardware Development Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in El Segundo, California, United States. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States and qualify as a U.S. person under ITAR requirements.

Salary: $140,333–$202,703 per year, plus potential long-term incentives.

Company

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

What you will do

• Design PCB-level electronics through schematic capture, layout, validation, fabrication, assembly, and manufacturing test.
• Translate mission and company objectives into subsystem requirements, designs, and development milestones.
• Serve as an avionics subject matter expert for satellite, reentry vehicle, and payload hardware.
• Collaborate with flight software, thermal, GNC, structures, mission operations, pharmaceutical, and integration teams.
• Own product acceptance and qualification testing for thermal, vibration, shock, TVAC, and EMI environments.
• Lead root-cause analysis, flight-risk mitigation, system integration planning, and mentorship of junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of direct electronics hardware development experience.
• Experience delivering flight-critical electrical hardware from schematic capture through environmental qualification.
• Knowledge of signal integrity, power and grounding layout, analog/digital filtering, mixed-signal circuits, and power electronics.
• Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, function generators, digital multimeters, and power supplies, plus programming in Python, MATLAB, or another scripting or data-analysis language.
• Experience implementing SPI, RS422, 1000BASE-T, and other onboard or over-harness communication protocols.

Nice to have

• Advanced electronic circuit design and analysis skills.
• Knowledge of physics, mathematics, and chemistry fundamentals relevant to demanding aerospace environments.
• Understanding of aerospace sensors and actuators, including RTDs, pressure transducers, brushless motors, solenoid valves, thermocouples, stepper motors, and rotary or linear encoders.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employees receive flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, and company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Benefits include FSA and employer-matched HSA options, parental leave, wellness reimbursement, and sponsored One Medical memberships.
• Financial benefits include stock incentives, a 401(k) with a 6% employer match, cell phone reimbursement, and relocation support if needed.
• Workplace benefits include meals, team events, happy hours, mission-success celebrations, and complimentary EV charging.