Staff High Power Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States. Successful candidates must clear a background check administered by the US government to obtain clearance for on-site work at a government partner location.

Hiring range: $154,000–$230,000 USD per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops Terran R rockets, launch infrastructure, and manufacturing capabilities for delivering customer payloads to orbit.

What you will do

• Define electrical system architectures, technical requirements, and design approaches for complex launch and processing facilities.
• Lead the design and integration of electrical systems from 22.5 kV to 120 V, including generation, distribution, protection, controls, sequencing, and redundancy.
• Establish engineering standards and technical criteria that improve reliability, maintainability, safety, and scalability.
• Resolve cross-disciplinary challenges involving electrical infrastructure, launch systems, construction, operations, and vehicle interfaces.
• Oversee equipment selection, design reviews, construction packages, subcontractor deliverables, installation, commissioning, and system acceptance.
• Review critical designs, develop engineering talent, and shape long-term facility and infrastructure strategy with engineering and program leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related field.
• 8+ years of relevant electrical engineering experience.
• Experience leading complex efforts involving power generation, distribution, protection, controls, or mission-critical infrastructure.
• Experience applying engineering first principles to technically ambiguous, high-impact problems across systems, disciplines, or project phases.
• Experience leading requirements development, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, troubleshooting, and operations.
• Experience communicating technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to engineers, contractors, operations partners, and senior stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with electrical architecture or technical standards for orbital launch, aerospace, utility, industrial, or other mission-critical facilities.
• Experience designing and commissioning medium- to high-power systems with redundancy, protection coordination, power quality, or high-availability requirements.
• Experience applying NFPA, military, NASA, or similar regulatory and technical requirements.
• Experience mentoring engineers or providing design leadership across multiple electrical projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave.
• Parental leave.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Work across launch, landing, refurbishment, ground systems, payloads, and vehicle interfaces.