Lead/Staff Electrical Engineer (Hardware Design)

Location: Los Angeles, CA; full-time onsite presence five days a week is required. The facility is based in Hawthorne, with very limited exceptions to the onsite requirement. Relocation assistance is provided.

Salary: $160,000–$250,000 per year, plus stock options.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-native manufacturing systems that integrate software, hardware, and physics to produce industrial-scale parts, including metal 3D printing factory systems.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and test reliable electronics and compute systems for complex autonomous systems.
• Drive electrical architecture, product requirements, component selection, circuit analysis, schematic capture, prototyping, bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and testing.
• Debug unexpected issues using laboratory test equipment, custom instrumentation, and dedicated test setups.
• Model and simulate circuit designs to evaluate performance.
• Act as a technical lead, own system-level decisions, drive schedules, and maintain a continuous rate of innovation.
• Collaborate closely with engineers across multiple disciplines throughout the product lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a similar engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of professional experience designing and delivering complex electrical hardware.
• Broad electrical engineering expertise and strong fundamentals, with a first-principles approach to problem-solving.
• Experience serving as a technical lead and system owner, accountable for architecture, execution quality, and technical outcomes across the full lifecycle.
• Ability to work onsite in Hawthorne five days per week.

Nice to have

• Master’s or PhD in electrical engineering.
• Experience with FPGA, GPU, and mixed-architecture compute systems, including performance, latency, and complexity tradeoffs.
• Experience with sensors, high-speed cameras, imaging, data acquisition, motion systems, scanning systems, optomechanical assemblies, or complex electromechanical systems.
• Experience with embedded microcontroller design and firmware.
• Familiarity with industrial automation technologies and robotics.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, diverse, collaborative, and learning-oriented environment with data-driven decision-making.
• Significant stock option package.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus life insurance and traditional and Roth 401(k).
• Paid vacation, sick leave, company holidays, and generous parental leave.
• Daily catered lunch and dinner, stocked kitchenette, flexible work hours, casual dress, and regular team-building events.