Electro-Optical Engineer II (Space Systems)

Location: Onsite at the Centennial, Colorado location. ITAR eligibility is required: U.S. citizenship, U.S. lawful permanent residency, protected individual status, or eligibility to obtain the required U.S. authorizations.

Base salary: $95,000–$155,000 per year, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors for space superiority and threat response.

What you will do

• Design, model, and analyze imaging systems for space-based payloads from concept through fielding.
• Develop end-to-end performance models covering radiometry, signal chains, and image quality.
• Execute hardware characterization and metrology for optical assemblies, detectors, and sensors.
• Create optical specifications, interface requirements, test plans, and supporting test infrastructure.
• Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and software engineers to flow down and verify imaging requirements.
• Present performance analyses and test results, while tracking and mitigating imaging-system risks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in physics, optics, imaging science, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a closely related field; a master’s degree is preferred.
• 2–4 years of professional experience in optical systems engineering, imaging-system development, or a related technical role.
• Experience with optical-system modeling, analysis, or characterization.
• Proficiency in MATLAB, Python, or a comparable language for engineering analysis and data processing.
• Strong fundamentals in optics, radiometry, and imaging physics, with effective written and verbal communication.
• Must meet U.S. Government ITAR eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

• Radiometric budgeting and end-to-end signal-chain performance analysis experience.
• Space-based imaging, remote sensing, or other space-application experience.
• Hands-on imaging metrology, optical bench testing, detector characterization, and image-quality measurement.
• Experience with stray-light analysis, wavefront-error budgeting, optical tolerance tools, EO/IR sensors, or image-processing pipelines.
• Startup or similarly dynamic-environment experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-critical work on hardware that is shipped to space.
• Collaboration across payloads, mechanical, electrical, and software engineering teams.
• Health, dental, vision, HRA/HSA options, paid time off, and paid holidays.
• 401(k) and parental leave.
• Equity compensation.