Principal Space Avionics Hardware Development Engineer

Location: On-site in El Segundo, California, United States

Salary: $181,913–$262,763 per year, plus eligibility for long-term incentives in the form of stock options and/or long-term cash awards.

Company

hirify.global develops commercial space infrastructure, including in-orbit pharmaceutical processing, reentry capsules, heat shields, and satellite buses, built, integrated, and tested in-house.

What you will do

• Architect and design flight-critical electrical hardware for satellite buses, reentry vehicles, and customer payloads, including flight computers, power systems, and sensors.
• Own PCB electronics design across schematic capture, layout, validation, fabrication, assembly, and manufacturing test.
• Contribute to avionics architecture, system design, subsystem requirements, standards, processes, and developmental milestones.
• Support GNC, pharmaceutical, mission operations, integration, flight software, thermal, and structures teams as an avionics subject matter expert.
• Lead product acceptance and qualification testing for thermal, vibration, shock, TVAC, and EMI environments, and support vehicle-level integration testing.
• Perform root-cause analysis on test failures, implement flight-risk mitigations, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of direct electronics hardware design experience, including schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring-up, and environmental qualification, in aerospace, automotive, or another high-reliability industry; at least 3 years must be directly on space hardware.
• Experience owning the architecture and implementation of complex electronics systems from design through production or deployment.
• Advanced PCB design expertise, including high-speed signal integrity, power and grounding, and electromagnetic compatibility.
• Experience taking complex PCB designs through fabrication and assembly; expert use of Altium and/or KiCad EDA suites.
• Strong hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, function generators, benchtop digital multimeters, and power supplies.
• Programming experience in Python, MATLAB, or another scripting/data-analysis language.
• Experience implementing hardware layers for on-board and over-harness communication protocols, including SPI, RS422, and 1000BASE-T.
• Experience designing analog/digital filtering, mixed-signal circuits, load switches, and switch-mode DC:DC converters.
• Understanding of aerospace sensors and actuators, including RTDs, pressure transducers, brushless motors, solenoid valves, thermocouples, stepper motors, and rotary/linear encoders.
• Employment in the United States requires lawful U.S. work authorization; access to export-controlled technology requires U.S. person status.

Nice to have

• Industry-leading electronic circuit design and analysis skills.
• Strong supporting knowledge of physics, mathematics, and chemistry fundamentals for electronics operating in unique environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work is conducted on-site at the El Segundo production facility.
• Vehicles, equipment, and materials are built, integrated, and tested in-house.
• Long-term incentives may include stock options and/or long-term cash awards.
• Inclusive employment environment with evaluation based on merit, qualifications, and performance.