Electrical Engineer (Spaceflight Electronics)

Location: Culver City, California, United States; onsite. Relocation assistance to Los Angeles is available.

Company

hirify.global is a seed-stage aerospace company developing a high-throughput point-to-point laser communication network in Medium Earth Orbit.

What you will do

• Design, lay out, bring up, and validate electronics for optical terminals and space payloads.
• Define electrical interfaces for optical subsystems, including power, drive, and sensor readout requirements.
• Select, evaluate, and qualify components while balancing performance, availability, and lead time.
• Characterize and debug hardware using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and laboratory instrumentation.
• Support integration and testing of the optical chain and payload.
• Document designs, test results, and hardware bring-up procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in electrical engineering or a related discipline.
• Experience with board-level design, schematic capture, and PCB layout.
• Hands-on hardware bring-up and debugging experience with laboratory instrumentation.
• Knowledge of analog and mixed-signal circuit fundamentals.
• Proficiency with a professional EDA tool such as Altium Designer, KiCad, Cadence, or equivalent.
• Ability to work onsite in Culver City, California.

Nice to have

• Optical driver electronics, laser diode drivers, TEC controllers, EDFA pump drivers, or photodetector readout design.
• Multi-GHz signal chains, SerDes, controlled impedance, and signal or power integrity analysis.
• FPGA development in Verilog or VHDL validated on real hardware.
• Space-qualified electronics, radiation-tolerant design, EEE parts, derating, and worst-case analysis.
• Environmental qualification, power architecture, or Python/MATLAB test automation experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Seed-stage environment with direct ownership of hardware and hands-on bench work.
• Company stock options are included in compensation for full-time employees.
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance with significant company contribution for employees and dependents.
• Paid parental leave, three weeks of accrued vacation, and ten company holidays per year.
• Equipment and laboratory budget.