Senior Avionics Hardware Development Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in El Segundo, California, United States. Employment requires authorization to work in the United States and U.S. person status under ITAR requirements.

Salary: $140,333–$202,703 per year, plus eligibility for stock options and/or long-term cash awards.

Company

hirify.global develops commercial space infrastructure, including in-orbit pharmaceutical processing payloads, 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, analysis, performance characterization, device selection, and roadmap planning.
• Serve as an avionics subject matter expert for satellite, reentry vehicle, and payload hardware while supporting GNC, pharmaceutical, mission operations, and integration teams.
• Collaborate with flight software, thermal, GNC, and structures teams to assess vehicle-level design impacts.
• Own product acceptance and qualification testing for thermal, vibration, shock, TVAC, and EMI environments, and support vehicle-level integration testing.
• Investigate test failures, implement mitigation strategies for flight risks, 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 and taking complex PCB designs through fabrication and assembly.
• Advanced PCB design expertise, including high-speed signal integrity, power and grounding, and electromagnetic compatibility.
• Expertise with Altium and/or KiCad EDA suites.
• Strong hands-on experience using 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, RS-422, and 1000BASE-T.
• Experience designing analog and digital filters, mixed-signal circuits, load switches, and switch-mode DC:DC converters.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Work on in-house commercial space infrastructure, including satellite buses, reentry vehicles, and pharmaceutical processing payloads.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and mission operations teams.
• Eligibility for long-term incentives through stock options and/or long-term cash awards.
• Varda is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, merit-based workplace.