Electrical Engineer (Senior/Staff), CD&H (Spacecraft Electrical Systems)

Location: Onsite at Centennial, Colorado or Long Beach, California, with travel to other sites as needed. The role includes office, lab, and cleanroom work, occasional travel to suppliers, test sites, or launch operations, and extended hours during critical hardware delivery and test campaigns.

Base salary: $135,000–$250,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors for space superiority and security.

What you will do

• Develop spacecraft electrical system architectures, block diagrams, power distribution networks, grounding schemes, signal routing topologies, and subsystem interfaces.
• Design custom avionics hardware, including power conditioning units, motor controllers, sensor interface boards, and data acquisition systems.
• Perform power budgets, voltage-drop calculations, fault analysis, load-flow studies, FMEA, worst-case circuit analysis, derating studies, and reliability assessments.
• Select and qualify electrical components based on mission requirements, radiation tolerance, temperature range, voltage margins, derating, reliability, and environmental specifications.
• Create schematics, BOMs, ICDs, architecture documentation, test procedures, analysis reports, and as-built drawings using industry-standard CAD tools.
• Develop and execute verification, environmental qualification, and EMI/EMC test plans; support hardware bring-up, debugging, spacecraft checkout, design reviews, and flight-readiness verification.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
• 5–10 years of professional experience in electrical system design, preferably in aerospace, defense, or other high-reliability applications.
• Strong fundamentals in circuit design, power electronics, electrical system architecture, analytical problem-solving, and technical documentation.
• Experience with system-level reliability analysis, including FMEA, fault-tree analysis, or similar methods.
• Proficiency creating architecture diagrams and technical documentation with Visio, Lucidchart, or similar tools.
• Proficiency with electrical CAD tools for schematic capture and PCB layout, such as Altium, OrCAD, EAGLE, or similar.
• Experience with SPICE or other circuit simulation, power-budget analysis, worst-case analysis, hardware debugging, and laboratory test equipment.
• Understanding of aerospace electrical standards and practices, including wire derating, connector selection, and EMI/EMC design.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to present technical concepts to multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to maintain or obtain TS//SCI clearance.
• For ITAR compliance, applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., protected individuals under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
• Ability to lift equipment up to 35 lbs, bend and reach during hardware assembly and testing, and operate hand tools and test equipment.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Spacecraft electrical systems experience, including EPS, flight computers, motor control, or sensor systems.
• Experience with space-grade components, radiation effects, qualification testing, high-voltage systems, battery management, or solar-array design.
• Knowledge of spacecraft communication protocols, including CAN, SpaceWire, MIL-STD-1553, RS-422, SPI, or I2C.
• Experience with MATLAB, Python, or similar tools; FPGA or embedded processor interfaces; digital logic; signal integrity; power integrity; or high-speed digital design.
• Familiarity with NASA or MIL standards, aerospace quality practices, requirements management, and systems engineering processes.
• Experience working with government or defense customers on space or launch-vehicle programs.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, with HSA/HRA options.
• Flexible Time Off for exempt employees, up to 25 accrued PTO days for non-exempt employees, 12 paid holidays, parental leave, and sick leave.
• 401(k), fitness reimbursement, equity participation, catered lunch, and snacks for in-office employees.
• Values emphasize creativity, ambitious problem-solving, and collaborative teamwork.

Hiring process

• The position remains open until successfully filled; applications should follow the stated submission directions.
• Identity-verification tools are used to protect candidates and the company from application fraud and impersonation.