Staff Electrical Engineer (Mixed-Signal)

Location: Remote; Southern California preferred. Other listed location: McLean, Virginia, United States.

Salary: $150,000–$175,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global is an incubation firm building technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security; Dash 2 Dynamics develops plasma-enhanced antenna and advanced communications systems.

What you will do

• Architect the mixed-signal backbone for plasma-enabled communications systems, including digital control, embedded interfaces, sensing, data conversion, and power.
• Lead electrical design reviews and mentor engineers while defining digital/RF boundaries across bands, operating modes, and product variants.
• Design microcontroller- and FPGA-based control electronics, precision sensing, data converters, and plasma drive and bias circuitry.
• Own boards from schematic capture through PCB layout, addressing signal integrity, power integrity, thermal margin, testability, EMI, arcing, parasitics, and transient stress.
• Bring up, test, and debug prototypes using laboratory instrumentation and automated data capture; correlate circuit models with plasma, thermal, and RF performance.
• Support fabrication, assembly, verification, configuration control, EMC design such as MIL-STD-461, defense qualification, and transition toward repeatable production.

Requirements

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field, or equivalent education, training, and directly relevant experience, with typically 6–10+ years of relevant engineering work demonstrating ownership of complex cross-disciplinary mixed-signal systems.
• Experience owning systems from architecture and interface trade-offs through schematic capture, PCB layout, bring-up, integration, and verification.
• Demonstrated ability to design, lay out, build, and debug printed circuit boards using a professional environment such as Altium Designer, KiCad, or OrCAD.
• Strong fundamentals in mixed-signal and digital design, microcontroller or FPGA interfaces, data converters, serial buses, power electronics, controls, instrumentation, signal integrity, and power integrity.
• Hands-on proficiency with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, signal generators, power supplies, electronic loads, probes, and safe laboratory practices.
• Ability to lead design reviews, mentor engineers, communicate technical risk, and make sound decisions with incomplete information.
• Ability to meet requirements associated with work on U.S. government and national-security programs.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with RF power amplifiers, impedance matching, high-voltage supplies, pulsed-power circuits, plasma systems, or electrically small antennas.
• FPGA or embedded firmware development experience, or experience collaborating with firmware engineers on hardware/software bring-up.
• Familiarity with electromagnetic compatibility practices and standards such as MIL-STD-461.
• Experience with embedded control, data acquisition, automation scripts, or software-defined radio interfaces.
• Experience supporting design verification, environmental qualification, SBIR/STTR programs, or defense product development.
• Active U.S. security clearance or eligibility to obtain one.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a career track and potential for advancement.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• Fourteen weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave at normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO with management approval and professional development opportunities.
• Optional 401(k), FSA, equity incentives, mental health benefits, and GLP-1 solutions.