Sr. Harness Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Hawthorne, California; onsite

Salary: $169,000–$187,000 per year

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates commercial planetary rovers for exploration and operations on distant planetary bodies.

What you will do

• Define and manage system-level harness schematics for flight hardware, testing, and ground support equipment with avionics engineers.
• Maintain an aerospace-grade materials and components library covering connectors, backshells, shielding, wires, and cables.
• Design routed 3D harness models and physical architectures within complex vehicle assemblies using aerospace standards for bend radii, strain relief, retention, isolation, and separation.
• Create 2D flat harness drawings and formboards, support first-article builds, and resolve manufacturing non-conformances.
• Perform voltage-drop, current-derating, and EMI/EMC shielding analyses.
• Coordinate continuity, isolation, vibration, and thermal-cycling qualification tests.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional wire harness design experience, including wiring diagrams, schematics, and interface documentation.
• Experience using CAD and PLM systems to develop and release production drawings.
• Experience troubleshooting harness issues and supporting root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Ability to work onsite in Hawthorne, California.

Nice to have

• Experience in aerospace, launch vehicles, defense, robotics, automotive, or other complex technical applications.
• Knowledge of aerospace-grade materials, components, and standards such as IPC/WHMA-A-620, NASA-STD-8739.4, NASA-STD-8739.6, NASA-STD-6016, SAE AS22759, or J-STD-001.
• Experience designing for high vibration, vacuum, thermal cycling, or EMI environments.
• Experience with signal-integrity analysis for Ethernet, SpaceWire, or LVDS interfaces.
• Experience with Siemens NX, Teamcenter, or E3 Zuken.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity ownership in the company.
• Medical, dental, vision, and mental health benefits.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Flexible PTO, parental leave, and home-office setup reimbursement.
• On-site meals, snacks, beverages, and monthly social hours.
• Work culture centered on trust, balance, diverse perspectives, purposeful execution, and impact.

Hiring process

• Application review and recruiter phone interview.
• Video interviews.
• On-site interview followed by an offer and hiring decision.