Staff Electrical Engineer (Spacecraft Avionics)

Location: Onsite at the Centennial, CO or Long Beach, CA locations, with travel to other sites as needed. U.S. work authorization is required for ITAR compliance.

Base salary: $175,000–$265,000 per year, plus equity and benefits.

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead avionics architecture definition and trade studies covering processing, data transport, power distribution, and redundancy.
• Own the end-to-end design of complex electronic assemblies from requirements and schematics through prototyping, bring-up, debugging, and production release.
• Collaborate with software, GNC, propulsion, and systems engineering on spacecraft architecture and subsystem interfaces.
• Lead preliminary and critical design reviews and define interface controls for power, RF, payload, harness, and other spacecraft subsystems.
• Drive hardware and software integration, first article testing, unit and production testing, validation campaigns, and qualification testing.
• Support hardware through production, integration, launch, and on-orbit commissioning while mentoring junior engineers and improving engineering processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field and at least 10 years of electrical engineering experience.
• Demonstrated spacecraft flight heritage designing, building, and delivering electronic hardware that has operated on orbit.
• Advanced PCB and PCBA design experience with Altium Designer or equivalent ECAD tools.
• Experience with embedded firmware development, hardware/firmware co-design, and system-level avionics architecture.
• Strong knowledge of RS-422/RS-485, SPI, I2C, SpaceWire, and Ethernet communication interfaces.
• Ability to maintain or obtain TS//SCI clearance and meet U.S. ITAR eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• FPGA SoC development with VHDL or Verilog.
• Radiation-tolerant design, COTS radiation-effects mitigation, and spacecraft power or propulsion interface experience.
• Knowledge of EEE-INST-002, GSFC-STD-7000, and MIL-STD-461.
• Experience with SPICE, MATLAB, Simulink, worst-case circuit analysis, derating analysis, configuration management, or requirements traceability tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity participation.
• Health, dental, vision, HRA/HSA options.
• Paid time off and paid holidays.
• 401(k) and parental leave.
• Fast-paced startup environment focused on space technology and continuous engineering improvement.