Senior Electronics & Avionics Engineer

Location: Long Beach, California, United States. The role involves access to U.S. export-controlled information and requires U.S.-person status or eligibility for deemed export licensing.

Salary: $137,760–$195,552 USD per year.

Company

hirify.global develops next-generation commercial space stations and spacecraft systems to support permanent human presence, microgravity research, manufacturing, and a new space economy.

What you will do

• Drive make, buy, or reuse decisions for avionics boxes.
• Own in-house box development from kickoff and Rev 1 schematic/layout through procurement, PCBA fabrication, bring-up, qualification, flight build, and ATP/QTP.
• Manage the PCBA critical path, including design reviews, component procurement, fabrication, assembly, staking, and conformal coating.
• Coordinate proton and heavy-ion radiation testing and define box-level environmental qualification requirements.
• Oversee harness design and board functional checkouts.
• Design avionics for production at a scale of hundreds of spacecraft per year and coordinate with the Haven-1 avionics team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of electronics or avionics design experience in aerospace or defense and 3+ years owning hardware programs end-to-end.
• Experience designing and delivering space-qualified avionics boxes through prototype, environmental testing, flight build, and ATP.
• Strong PCBA design skills, including schematic capture, layout, and component selection for IPC Class 3 space applications.
• Experience with radiation testing, rad-tolerant or rad-hard design, board bring-up, debugging, and functional test development.
• Familiarity with SMC-S-016 or HALT/HASS environmental qualification and EEE-INST-002 parts derating.

Nice to have

• Ability to obtain a security clearance.
• CMG, reaction wheel, ADCS actuator electronics, or power electronics experience.
• EMI/EMC design and testing under MIL-STD-461.
• IPC/J-STD workmanship standards knowledge.
• Experience scaling prototypes to multi-unit production with 10+ flight units.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time exempt employment with company equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Paid time off, paid parental leave, disability insurance, and life insurance.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan, ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare, and discounts.
• Onsite food perks including snacks, coffee, drinks, dinner meals, and subsidized lunch.