Avionics Hardware Development Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in El Segundo, California, United States. Must be authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. person due to ITAR-controlled technology access.

Salary: $110,000–$160,000 per year, plus potential 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

• Develop mixed-signal avionics designs from requirements definition through qualification and production release.
• Design electrical circuit boards, including schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring-up, and functional testing.
• Support avionics architecture trade studies, device selection, performance characterization, risk analysis, and roadmap planning.
• Collaborate on mechanical fit, form, and function for avionics hardware.
• Test hardware through thermal, vibration, shock, TVAC, and EMI environments.
• Create vehicle-level integration test plans and investigate failures to develop flight-risk mitigations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of direct electronics hardware design experience, including schematic capture, PCB layout, and board bring-up.
• Experience designing flight hardware circuit boards through functional testing on hardware that flew or was qualified for flight.
• Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, function generators, digital multimeters, and power supplies.
• Understanding of analog and digital filtering, mixed-signal circuit design, signal integrity, power, grounding, and board layout.
• Experience with Python, MATLAB, or another scripting and data-analysis language, plus sensor and actuator technologies.

Nice to have

• Flight avionics experience for aircraft, launch vehicles, or other space applications.
• Altium Designer schematic and layout experience.
• Experience with vibration, shock, thermal, and TVAC environmental testing.
• Launch vehicle avionics systems integration experience.
• Experience with instrumentation, data acquisition, serial devices, accelerometers, and 4–20 mA sensors.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with flexible PTO and 12 paid holidays.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, with FSA and employer-matched HSA options.
• Parental leave, family-building and wellness benefits, and a $120 monthly fitness reimbursement.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% immediately vested employer match.
• Relocation support may be available for new hires.
• Daily lunch, twice-weekly dinner, team events, and complimentary EV charging.