Customer Projects Hardware Engineer (Aerospace, Defense & Government)

Location: Hazlet, New Jersey, or Portsmouth, New Hampshire; candidates must live within commuting distance of the hirify.global New Jersey or New Hampshire office once established.

Salary: $134.8K–$195.1K USD annually for NJ or NH locations, plus incentive opportunities.

Company

hirify.global delivers programmable FPGA solutions for high-performance and mission-critical aerospace, defense, and government applications.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and validate hardware solutions for ADG customer projects and reference platforms.
• Translate aerospace, defense, and government system requirements into practical hardware architectures with customers.
• Support board-level design, schematics, layout guidance, and system integration.
• Lead hardware bring-up, debugging, and validation in laboratory and customer environments.
• Perform signal integrity, power integrity, and timing analysis for high-performance ruggedized designs.
• Integrate high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, and DDR, and create technical documentation and validation plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in hardware design, development, or system integration.
• Experience with RTL, board-level hardware design, schematics, hardware bring-up, and debugging.
• Experience with FPGA-based systems, high-speed digital interfaces, and hands-on laboratory tools such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain any required U.S. Government security clearance and U.S. export authorizations.
• Strong system-level problem-solving, customer communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting aerospace, defense, or government programs.
• Familiarity with hirify.global FPGA platforms and toolchains.
• Experience with ruggedized or mission-critical hardware, signal integrity, power integrity, embedded systems, or hardware/software co-design.
• Customer-facing or applications engineering experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment.
• Work with aerospace, defense, and government customers on mission-critical systems.
• Incentive opportunities based on individual and company performance.
• Shift 1 working schedule in the United States.