Senior Staff Antenna Engineer (Radar/EW)

Location: Full-time, on-site position in El Segundo, California, United States. U.S. citizenship is required, and candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance; an active clearance is preferred.

Base salary: $237k–$264k annually, excluding bonuses, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops defense products powered by Coherent Distributed Networks for warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams.

What you will do

• Own antenna development from architecture trades through qualification and production, selecting approaches based on mission performance, SWaP-C, reliability, producibility, and cost.
• Translate system requirements into antenna, aperture, RF front-end, and radome requirements.
• Design, model, integrate, and test antennas and phased arrays for active and passive RF systems, including AESA, narrowband, and wideband architectures.
• Plan verification and qualification activities, correlate analytical predictions with measured performance, and support prototype integration, test campaigns, and field activities.
• Collaborate with RF, digital, mechanical, and thermal engineers to deliver integrated designs and resolve technical risks.
• Provide technical guidance during design reviews and requirements development, while contributing to analysis tools, test methods, sponsored research, and university partnerships.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field, plus 10+ years of antenna engineering experience in radar, electronic warfare, or related RF sensing applications.
• Deep antenna design expertise in at least one frequency band and working knowledge across other frequency bands.
• Experience designing phased arrays and RF front ends, including element design, scan performance, mutual coupling, sidelobe control, polarization, calibration, and beamforming.
• Experience with narrowband and wideband architectures such as TCDA, Vivaldi, or log-periodic designs.
• Hands-on experience with electromagnetic simulation, antenna measurement, and model-to-test correlation.
• Experience integrating antennas with beamforming electronics, radomes, structures, and thermal systems.
• Ability to work independently on assigned technical efforts and collaborate effectively across disciplines.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance; active clearance is preferred.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field.
• Experience with digital or adaptive beamforming, monopulse processing, multifunction arrays, or conformal arrays.
• Experience with ruggedized antennas, radomes, installed-antenna performance, design for manufacturing, automated calibration, or production test.
• Technical contributions demonstrated through fielded systems or patents.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work with designed hardware from development through testing and field use in a fast-moving engineering environment.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits fully paid by the company, plus 401(k) with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay, FSA, HSA, and life insurance.
• Free daily lunch onsite, stocked kitchen, unlimited PTO, and casual dress code.
• Relocation assistance and pre-IPO stock option grants; annual bonuses are planned.
• 500+ employees across five global offices.