Principal Electrical Design Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Redwood City, California, United States; hybrid workplace

Salary: $220,000–$270,000 per year, with flexibility between salary and equity-based compensation.

Company

hirify.global builds radar satellite systems that create high-resolution, real-time 3D maps of Earth for disaster response, infrastructure resilience, and mission-critical intelligence.

What you will do

• Design advanced digital and mixed-signal electronic platforms for radar payloads and satellite systems, from architecture through manufacturing.
• Define requirements, perform system trades, select components, capture schematics, and design complex electronic assemblies.
• Collaborate with software, firmware, RF, antenna, mechanical, and systems engineers to validate spacecraft electronics.
• Lead prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, manufacturing, and test campaigns.
• Iterate designs using laboratory, environmental, and on-orbit test results to improve performance, efficiency, stability, and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, risk-reduction planning, and mentorship of early-career engineers.

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 15+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience designing, bringing up, and testing electronics across the hardware lifecycle.
• Experience with high-speed board design, PCB layout constraints, signal and power integrity, EMC requirements, and EMI mitigation.
• Hands-on experience with compute platforms, storage, high-speed interfaces, and RF components.
• Proficiency with schematic capture and CAD tools such as Altium Designer; experience with Allegro or OrCAD is beneficial.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations under ITAR regulations.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Experience in consumer electronics, power electronics, communications, automotive, aerospace, or robotics.
• Knowledge of RF fundamentals, EM and thermal simulation, and tools such as LTspice, ADS, or Microwave Office.
• Experience with MATLAB or Python and test equipment including oscilloscopes and network analyzers.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid work in Redwood City.
• Competitive compensation with flexibility between salary and equity-based compensation.
• Work on end-to-end satellite development and a real-time Earth observation constellation.
• Interview process conducted via Google Meet and typically completed within 2–4 weeks.

Hiring process

• Interviews are conducted via Google Meet.
• The typical process takes approximately 2–4 weeks from start to finish.