Senior RF Systems Engineer II Pipeline

Location: Long Beach, California, United States. The role is based at hirify.global's global headquarters and may involve work in production areas.

Base salary: $145,000–$210,000 USD per year in California.

Company

hirify.global is an aerospace company developing rockets, spacecraft, RF products, payloads, and critical space systems and subsystems.

What you will do

• Define and maintain requirements specifications for new RF products and systems.
• Conduct payload design trades and analyses in support of proposals and system development.
• Develop payload and TT&C subsystems, including prototypes, engineering models, and space-qualified products.
• Support RF payload testing, test plans, procedures, ground support equipment, and production automation.
• Review customer requirements, assess compliance, and scope development activities for new needs.
• Support PDRs, CDRs, TRRs, customer technical questions, anomaly troubleshooting, and program schedules.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, RF communications, or another engineering discipline, plus 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated RF knowledge, including link budget analysis and linearity.
• Strong theoretical and practical understanding of RF communications, navigation systems, and components.
• Experience accounting for ITU constraints, including PFD limits and DSN protection.
• End-to-end experience developing and delivering multiple RF systems, including requirements assessment, prototyping, production, and mission support.
• U.S. citizenship is required, and the ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance is required. U.S. office work is subject to ITAR eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

• Existing TS/SCI clearance and extensive space-grade system design experience.
• Experience with worst-case, reliability, FMECA, thermal, and derating analyses.
• Experience designing, integrating, and testing RF communications systems for launch vehicles or satellites.
• Experience leading engineering programs, mentoring others, incident investigations, conflict resolution, or project management.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced environment focused on space missions, innovation, teamwork, and delivering under pressure.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, including a company-sponsored HSA option.
• Three weeks of paid vacation, five sick days, paid holidays, parental leave, disability insurance, and life insurance.
• 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase program, onsite gym, subsidized EV charging, food and drinks, and other discounts.