Senior Electrical Design Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Redwood City, California, United States; on-site

Salary: $150,000–$170,000 per year, with flexibility between salary and equity-based compensation.

Company

hirify.global builds advanced 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 spacecraft.
• Define requirements, perform system trades, select components, capture schematics, and design complex electronic assemblies.
• Collaborate with software, firmware, RF, antenna, mechanical, and systems engineering teams.
• Lead prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, manufacturing, and test campaigns.
• Iterate on designs using laboratory, environmental, and on-orbit test results.
• Develop hardware that improves satellite performance, power efficiency, stability, and reliability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related field and 4–7 years of relevant experience.
• Experience designing, bringing up, and testing electronics through the full hardware lifecycle.
• Experience with high-speed board design, PCB layout constraints, signal and power integrity, EMC, EMI mitigation, and electronic measurement.
• Experience with compute platforms, storage, high-speed interfaces, RF components, and fault-tolerant satellite avionics.
• 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 the required U.S. Department of State authorization 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.
• Experience with LTspice, ADS, Microwave Office, MATLAB, Python, oscilloscopes, and network analyzers.
• Experience with electromagnetic and thermal simulation of printed circuit boards.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Competitive compensation with flexibility between salary and equity-based compensation.
• Work directly on satellite technology for real-time Earth observation.
• Equal opportunity employment based on merit, competence, and qualifications.

Hiring process

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