Staff Space Electrical Systems Engineer (Space Nuclear Power)

Location: Los Angeles, USA. Full-time onsite role. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees, asylees, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations under U.S. export regulations.

Salary: $160K–$235K plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is a Series C aerospace and clean-energy startup developing mass-producible, inherently safe microreactors for terrestrial, underwater, and space applications.

What you will do

• Own the system-level electrical architecture for space nuclear power systems and associated development and test hardware.
• Translate mission and vehicle requirements into electrical system, subsystem, interface, and verification requirements.
• Define power buses, voltage levels, power quality, load allocation, grounding, bonding, isolation, protection, redundancy, and fault-containment boundaries.
• Develop operating modes and transitions for startup, nominal operation, load changes, degraded and faulted conditions, shutdown, and ground testing.
• Lead architecture trades, allocate interfaces across electrical and vehicle subsystems, and maintain architecture diagrams, ICDs, power budgets, requirements, verification plans, and design-review materials.
• Lead or support hardware integration, troubleshooting, anomaly resolution, FMEA, reliability and fault-tolerance analyses, qualification, and nuclear safety and licensing activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Controls Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Approximately 5+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent demonstrated ownership of complex electrical systems.
• Demonstrated ownership of electrical architecture, requirements, interfaces, or verification at subsystem or vehicle level.
• Strong fundamentals in power distribution, grounding and bonding, isolation, fault protection, instrumentation, signal interfaces, control systems, and electrical fault management.
• Experience translating system requirements into electrical subsystem requirements, interface definitions, and verification methods.
• Experience developing and reviewing architecture diagrams, schematics, wiring documentation, ICDs, electrical budgets, test plans, and verification evidence.
• Hands-on experience integrating and troubleshooting complex electrical hardware.
• Ability to lead cross-functional technical decisions involving electrical, firmware, software, controls, mechanical, thermal, test, and systems teams.
• Compliance with applicable U.S. Government export regulations and authorization requirements.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or higher in Electrical or Controls Engineering.
• Spacecraft, launch-vehicle, or other flight electrical-system architecture experience.
• Experience with spacecraft PMAD, high-power or high-voltage distribution, batteries, motor drives, or power electronics.
• Experience with avionics, embedded controls, instrumentation, sensors, actuators, and real-time control systems.
• Experience with radiation, thermal-vacuum, EMI/EMC, vibration, shock, qualification, and acceptance testing.
• Experience with grounding, bonding, shielding, isolation, fault protection, and redundancy architecture.
• Experience with FMEA, fault-tree, reliability, and single-point-failure analysis.
• Supplier technical management and hardware qualification experience.
• Experience in nuclear, defense, or another regulated and configuration-controlled environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Values systems thinking, end-user focus, unconventional problem-solving, nuanced decision-making, and first-principles analysis.
• Emphasizes face-to-face interaction with customers, users, and stakeholders and aims to maximize time working together in person.
• Offers a significant stock option package in addition to the stated salary range.
• Equal opportunity employment based on merit, competence, and qualifications.