Senior Electrical Engineer (Aerospace/Defense)

Location: Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America

Company

hirify.global is an employee-owned company developing aerospace and defense systems.

What you will do

• Design, analyze, test, and qualify ruggedized PCB assemblies for onboard flight processing, signal conditioning, power conversion, and motor control.
• Develop power supply electronics, power conditioning circuits, motor drive electronics, and high-current power stages for missile and thrust-vector-control systems.
• Integrate inertial measurement units, GPS, altimeters, seeker payloads, and flight computer interfaces; design MIL-spec cable harnesses and interconnect systems.
• Develop electrical interface control documents, schematics, and system wiring topologies while implementing EMI, EMC, shielding, signal-integrity, and thermal-electrical derating solutions.
• Design electrical ground support equipment, test fixtures, breakout boxes, and hardware-in-the-loop test setups; troubleshoot failures and perform root-cause investigations.
• Support environmental qualification, remote test range campaigns, pre-flight checkouts, and post-flight telemetry and data analysis.

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with 5+ years of experience, or an M.S. with 3+ years of experience in aerospace, defense, or high-reliability electronics design.
• Hands-on experience integrating tactical- or strategic-grade IMUs, including RLG, FOG, or high-performance MEMS IMUs.
• In-depth understanding of IMU electrical interfaces, clocking and synchronization protocols, dynamic-range constraints, and noise sensitivity.
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout using Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro, or Mentor Graphics/Siemens EDA.
• Hands-on experience with mixed-signal, analog, high-speed digital, and DC-DC power-conversion design.
• Experience implementing MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, Ethernet/UDP, CAN bus, RS-422/485, SPI, and I2C interfaces.
• Working knowledge of MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, and MIL-STD-704.
• Must hold an active US DoD Secret security clearance with eligibility for Top Secret/SCI.

Nice to have

• Experience designing drive electronics for BLDC motors or actuators.
• Experience with ordnance safety design or electronic fuzing circuits per MIL-STD-1901A.
• Familiarity with RF interfaces, antennas, or telemetry transmitters.
• Basic FPGA development using VHDL or Verilog, or microcontroller firmware integration experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee-owned company environment.
• Equal opportunity employment.