Senior Electrical Engineer I - Secret Clearance (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States; based at hirify.global's global headquarters and hired for work in a U.S. office.

Salary: $132,000–$198,000 USD base pay annually for California.

Company

hirify.global is an end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems for commercial, exploration, national security, and defense missions.

What you will do

• Develop PCBA requirements in collaboration with engineers from other disciplines.
• Create schematics and PCB layouts using Altium Designer.
• Perform power, tolerance, and reliability circuit analyses.
• Conduct PCBA design verification and system integration testing.
• Support production manufacturing as needed and participate in testing and operation of spacecraft electrical systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of electrical hardware design experience, including schematic capture and PCB layout.
• Strong background in analog electronics design.
• Proficiency with circuit analysis in SPICE and Excel.
• Active Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.
• Work in U.S. offices is subject to ITAR eligibility requirements; candidates must be U.S. citizens, lawful U.S. permanent residents, lawfully admitted refugees or asylees, or eligible to obtain the required government authorizations.
• The role may require prolonged sitting, standing, walking, computer work, and occasional exposure to moderate noise, dust, and fumes in production areas.

Nice to have

• Master's or PhD in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline.
• Experience with electronic laboratory equipment, including power supplies, oscilloscopes, DMMs, signal generators, and soldering irons.
• Experience designing for space environments, including radiation effects and mitigation.
• Experience with high-reliability aerospace applications, rigid-flex PCBs, electromechanical design, FPGA design, or embedded software for ARM core processors.
• Demonstrated success working in dynamic environments and managing competing priorities.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced environment focused on spacecraft, launch, and space systems missions, with teamwork, tight deadlines, and hands-on execution.
• Company stock, an Employee Stock Purchase Program with a 15% discount, and a 401(k) plan with company match.
• Medical, dental, vision, HMO, PPO, zero-cost HDHP, HSA contribution, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, disability and life insurance.
• Paid vacation and sick time, 11 paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Additional benefits include subsidized EV charging, onsite fitness centers where available, gym memberships, snacks and beverages, and employee discounts.