Senior Space Avionics Hardware Development Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in El Segundo, California, United States. The role requires authorization to work in the United States and eligibility as a U.S. person under ITAR requirements.

Salary: $140,333–$202,703 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 systems, reentry capsules, heat shields, and satellite buses, with vehicles and equipment built, integrated, and tested in-house.

What you will do

• Design PCB-level electronics across schematic capture, layout, validation, fabrication, assembly, and manufacturing test.
• Support avionics architecture trade studies, analyses, performance characterization, device selection, and roadmap planning.
• Act as the avionics subject matter expert for satellite, reentry vehicle, and payload hardware, supporting GNC, pharmaceutical, mission operations, and integration teams.
• Collaborate with flight software, thermal, GNC, and structures teams to assess vehicle-level impacts of design decisions.
• Own acceptance and qualification testing for thermal, vibration, shock, TVAC, and EMI environments, and direct system-level integration test plans.
• Perform root cause analysis for test failures, implement flight-risk mitigations, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 5+ 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.
• Experience contributing to 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.
• Expertise with Altium and/or KiCad EDA suites.
• Strong hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, function generators, benchtop digital multimeters, and power supplies.
• Experience programming in Python, MATLAB, or another scripting or data-analysis language.
• Experience implementing hardware layers for on-board and over-harness communication protocols, including SPI, RS-422, and 1000BASE-T.
• Experience designing analog and digital filtering, mixed-signal circuits, load switches, and switch-mode DC:DC converters.
• Must be lawfully authorized to work in the United States and qualify as a U.S. person permitted to access export-controlled technology without an export license.

Nice to have

• Industry-leading electronic circuit design and analysis skills.
• General knowledge of physics, mathematics, and chemistry fundamentals relevant to electronics in unique environments.
• Understanding of aerospace sensor and actuator technologies, including RTDs, pressure transducers, brushless motors, solenoid valves, thermocouples, stepper motors, and rotary or linear encoders.

Culture & Benefits

• Work is performed on-site at the El Segundo facility, where vehicles, equipment, and materials are built, integrated, and tested.
• Eligibility for long-term incentives through stock options and/or long-term cash awards.
• Work in a cross-functional environment spanning avionics, flight software, thermal, GNC, structures, mission operations, pharmaceutical, and integration teams.
• Mentorship responsibilities supporting the development of junior engineers.
• Equal opportunity employment with evaluation based on merit, qualifications, and performance.