Senior Avionics Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in Alameda, United States

Company

hirify.global develops and operates full-size autonomous cargo aircraft designed to carry two tons of payload over more than a thousand nautical miles.

What you will do

• Own the electrical and avionics architecture for the aircraft, mission systems, and ground control station, including redundancy and failure behavior.
• Define power generation, storage, distribution, protection, electrical load analysis, data buses, and network architecture.
• Select and qualify flight computers, mission computers, actuators, sensors, radios, and datalinks.
• Develop interface control documents and standards for schematics, wire harnesses, grounding, bonding, and shielding.
• Lead EMI/EMC, environmental qualification, flight-test instrumentation, and avionics failure investigations.
• Manage suppliers and test laboratories, support system safety and certification evidence, lead design reviews, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years designing and integrating avionics or electrical systems for aircraft, spacecraft, or comparable vehicles.
• Experience owning vehicle or major-subsystem electrical or avionics architecture from concept through testing.
• Experience designing power distribution systems, including circuit protection and load analysis.
• Experience integrating avionics hardware and leading ground or flight testing on a real vehicle.
• Experience with redundancy design, failure-mode analysis, design reviews, and technical direction for other engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with uncrewed aircraft, command-and-control datalinks, ground control station hardware, or mission systems.
• Experience with fly-by-wire actuation systems, DO-160 qualification, or DO-254 hardware development.
• Familiarity with ARP4754A, ARP4761, MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-461, or AS50881.
• Experience with flight-test instrumentation and data acquisition systems.
• Private pilot certificate or Part 107 certificate.

Culture & Benefits

• Early-stage equity and competitive compensation.
• Health benefit plans and 6% retirement matching.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Relocation support if applicable.
• Free lunches, snacks, stocked office refrigerators, and AI tools and subscriptions.