Electrical Engineer III (Drone Hardware)

Location: Torrance, California, United States

Salary: $118,500–$166,000 USD per year, plus potential equity grants.

Company

hirify.global is a defense technology company designing and manufacturing high-performance unmanned systems for large-scale deployment.

What you will do

• Own schematic capture and circuit design across analog, digital, RF, and mixed-signal subsystems, including component selection and power architecture.
• Direct or participate in PCB layout, reviewing stackup, impedance, routing constraints, and alignment with design intent.
• Lead hardware integration from board bring-up through production qualification and troubleshoot circuits and systems using bench instrumentation.
• Write and execute test procedures and electronics verification plans linked to requirements, test methods, and acceptance criteria.
• Apply DFT, DFM, and DFR to production builds and resolve issues found in assemblies from contract manufacturers.
• Coordinate EMI/EMC, thermal, shock/vibration, and environmental qualification with external test laboratories.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field.
• 5+ years of experience in electronics hardware design and verification, including ownership of design execution and verification close-out on production programs.
• Proficiency in schematic capture and PCB layout direction; Altium experience is preferred.
• Experience leading hardware integration and board bring-up, with hands-on circuit-level debugging using oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
• Strong circuit theory fundamentals across analog, digital, and RF domains, applied to hands-on design and debugging.
• Experience with electronics test procedures, verification plans, DFT, DFM, DFR, and MATLAB, Python, or a comparable scripting language.

Nice to have

• Experience executing WCCA across digital, analog, RF, and mixed-signal subsystems.
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, IEC, UL, or CE qualification standards.
• Aerospace, defense, or drone hardware development experience with production qualification.
• Experience with FMEA, derating analysis, reliability prediction, or SI/PI analysis tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, hands-on engineering environment focused on moving systems from design to deployment.
• Work on unmanned systems tested in combat and produced at scale.
• Base salary is accompanied by highly competitive equity grants as part of total compensation.
• Equal opportunity employment is provided to all applicants.