Electro-Optical Engineer (All levels) (Spacecraft)

Location: Redondo Beach, United States; onsite

Salary: $150,000–$250,000 per year, plus potential stock options and benefits.

Company

hirify.global Space develops in-space transportation vehicles and spacecraft payload systems for orbital transport, constellation deployment, precision reentry, and missions beyond Low Earth Orbit.

What you will do

• Own the technical development of flight camera systems and optical payloads from concept through flight.
• Define requirements, evaluate architectures, and make decisions across optics, detector selection, camera interfaces, opto-mechanics, thermal design, and calibration.
• Collaborate with embedded software, avionics, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and test teams to bring up and mature hardware.
• Lead subsystem integration, test planning, issue resolution, and performance closure for electro-optical flight hardware.
• Drive risk retirement, prioritization, vendor coordination, and technical status communication with high autonomy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in optical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience developing complex hardware systems in camera systems, embedded imaging, electro-optical payloads, opto-mechanics, or optical systems.
• Experience owning a subsystem, product, or major technical workstream through development and testing.
• Hands-on experience debugging and maturing hardware in a laboratory, integration, or production environment.
• Strong engineering judgment, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
• Applicants must be U.S. Persons or eligible to obtain a U.S. export license under ITAR/EAR requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience with flight cameras, imaging payloads, optical navigation systems, spacecraft electro-optical hardware, or precision imaging systems.
• Expertise in camera embedded software, electro-optical hardware, opto-mechanics, or optical system design.
• Experience with CMOS image sensors, camera electronics, detector bring-up, image pipelines, or embedded camera software.
• Experience with Zemax OpticStudio, Code V, calibration, image-quality characterization, and environmental testing.
• Space hardware experience covering qualification, acceptance, launch survivability, and spacecraft integration.

Culture & Benefits

• High-autonomy role with ownership of hardware that flies.
• Opportunity to shape architecture, execution, and product direction in a fast-moving spacecraft environment.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan and potential long-term incentives in the form of stock options.

Hiring process

• Application and resume review.
• Introductory phone interview followed by technical phone interviews.
• Onsite interview and offer.