Senior Satellite Systems Engineer (Avionics and Electrical Engineering)

TL;DR

Senior Satellite Systems Engineer (Avionics and Electrical Engineering): Building and delivering earth observation satellite systems with an accent on spacecraft avionics and electrical engineering, including RF component evaluation, flatsat/risk-reduction testbeds, and end-to-end integration of payload data chains. Focus on generating ICDs, ensuring compliance to electrical/C&DH/avionics/software requirements, and overseeing vendor design reviews, analysis packages, and test reports.

Location: Westminster, CO

Salary: $90,000.00 - $132,000.00 annually

Company

hirify.global develops earth observation satellite systems and ground capabilities for spatial intelligence.

What you will do

• Conduct and evaluate RFIs and RFPs with satellite component vendors.
• Develop Flatsat and data-chain risk reduction testbeds for multiple systems.
• Integrate and test flight payload systems that create, encrypt, compress, modify, and downlink high-data-rate mission products to hirify.global ground systems.
• Generate Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and manage/“sell off” their requirements.
• Write and oversee system compliance to electrical, C&DH, avionics, and software requirements.
• Review vendor-submitted processes, design reviews, analysis packages, and test reports.

Requirements

• U.S. Person status required (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, asylee, or refugee) due to ITAR/export control requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, aerospace, physics, or a related field.
• 3–7 years of experience in aerospace systems engineering.
• Experience setting up flatsat and risk-reduction testbeds for space systems.
• Experience designing and qualifying avionics systems for low-earth orbit environments (radiation, thermal, and EMI/EMC).
• End-to-end aerospace program experience (ConOps and architecture development, requirements/design reviews, assembly integration and test, verification and validation, and on-orbit operations).

Nice to have

• Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience integrating AI-enabled edge-compute solutions in space.
• Experience integrating optical crosslink terminal solutions in space.
• Experience with encryption/decryption hardware devices and/or IP cores.
• Familiarity with modern cybersecurity principles and satellite bus flight software architecture.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance at the TS/SCI level.

Culture & Benefits

• 401(k) with company match and mental health resources.
• Student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
• Incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results.
• Application window: three days from the date the job is posted (and remains posted until a qualified candidate is identified).