Electrical Engineer I/II (Nuclear)

Location: Los Angeles, USA; onsite. ITAR eligibility requires U.S. citizenship or nationality, lawful permanent residence, refugee or asylee status, or eligibility to obtain the required U.S. authorizations.

Salary: $120K–$185K annually; Electrical Engineer I: $120K–$155K, Electrical Engineer II: $144K–$185K. Equity offered.

Company

hirify.global develops mass-producible, inherently safe microreactors for terrestrial, underwater, and space applications, with work supporting military services, NASA, and the Department of Energy.

What you will do

• Design reactor instrumentation, control, and power distribution systems from concept through detailed implementation.
• Develop schematics, wiring diagrams, and interface definitions for sensors, control hardware, and electrical subsystems.
• Review electrical designs, harnesses, and control panel designs and participate in technical design reviews.
• Support hazard analyses by identifying electrical and instrumentation failure modes and mitigations.
• Support bench testing, HIL/HITL testing, hardware integration, and integration campaigns.
• Collaborate with systems, mechanical, software, licensing, and test teams to meet performance, safety, and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience designing, analyzing, or integrating electrical systems.
• Strong understanding of DC and AC circuits, impedance, and transient behavior.
• Ability to create, read, and review electrical schematics and wiring diagrams.
• Familiarity with electrical design, simulation, or PCB layout tools, including SPICE-based simulators, schematic capture, or layout review tools.
• Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, and signal generators.
• Ability to reason about failure modes and safe states in electrical or control systems.
• Comfort working in fast-paced, ambiguous hardware development environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in regulated or safety-critical environments such as nuclear, aerospace, defense, maritime, or industrial.
• Understanding of fail-safe design, redundancy, voting logic, or diversity in control systems.
• Experience with hardware bring-up, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Exposure to HIL/HITL testing, automated test frameworks, or data acquisition platforms.
• Familiarity with IEEE, IEC, DOE nuclear standards, GDE-987 processes, or similar hardware qualification paths.
• Experience contributing to formal design reviews, hazard analyses, or configuration-controlled documentation.
• Ability to take ownership of hardware problems, work through ambiguity, and drive issues to closure.

Culture & Benefits

• Values systems thinking, end-user focus, unconventional problem-solving, ambiguity tolerance, and direct engagement with customers and stakeholders.
• Primarily onsite collaboration, with an emphasis on building teams in person; occasional travel may be required to meet customers, users, or stakeholders.
• Full-time employment with equity offered.