Electrical Engineer, Senior-Staff (eGSE)

Location: Fully onsite in Long Beach, California, or Denver, Colorado, United States

Salary: $150,000–$220,000 for Senior Engineer or $160,000–$250,000 for Staff Engineer annually, plus equity and benefits

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors for space security and defense.

What you will do

• Design and deliver EGSE racks and test enclosures from requirements through first article build and checkout.
• Create mechanical layouts, electrical schematics, harness designs, and complete drawing packages.
• Lead MIL-spec harness fabrication and define build-quality standards, including connector inspection, shielding, crimping, and backshell installation.
• Standardize rack components, inventory, procurement, power architecture, data routing, grounding, shielding, and EMI mitigation across programs.
• Develop hardware-in-the-loop test-system architecture for emulator-based and flight-hardware configurations.
• Support production and test bring-up activities, mentor engineers and technicians, and maintain traceable technical documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace Engineering, or a comparable discipline.
• Hands-on EGSE, test-system, or hardware-engineering experience in aerospace, defense, or another high-reliability industry.
• Experience designing and building harnesses, including crimping, connector inspection, backshell installation, and shielding termination.
• Strong mechanical and electrical hardware-design skills, including 3D layouts and schematics for the same system.
• Experience with rack-level power and data architecture, UPS systems, lab-grade power supplies, Linux-based control systems, and mixed signal/power environments.
• Must satisfy U.S. Government export-control requirements: U.S. citizenship, U.S. lawful permanent residency, protected-individual status, or eligibility to obtain the required authorizations.

Nice to have

• Aerospace or startup experience.
• Hardware-in-the-loop test-system experience.
• Mechanical or electrical CAD experience with tools such as SolidWorks or Altium.
• PCB design, harness rework, or signal-integrity layout experience.
• Python or C++ familiarity for collaboration with software engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity participation.
• Health, dental, vision, HRA, and HSA options.
• Paid time off and paid holidays.
• 401(k) and parental leave.
• Hands-on work supporting spacecraft, payload, and space-defense test infrastructure.