Power Electronics Engineer (Aerospace)

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: $110,000–$175,000 USD annually, depending on level, qualifications, skills, experience, business needs, and market demand.

Company

hirify.global develops next-generation commercial space stations and spacecraft to support a continuous human presence in space, microgravity research and manufacturing, and the emerging space economy.

What you will do

• Own power electronics development from specifications, architecture, simulation, schematic capture, and PCB design through mechanical packaging and board bring-up.
• Design circuits for power conversion, load switching, hot-swapping, power conditioning, inrush control, and over-current fault detection.
• Lead board-level, environmental, and integrated system-level validation.
• Perform failure modes and effects analyses and drive system-level reliability and validation plans.
• Support critical mission milestones, including occasional overtime or weekend work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
• At least 2 years of experience developing power electronics.
• Experience with full-lifecycle product development and instrumentation or data acquisition.
• Experience with vehicle and instrumentation buses such as Ethernet, CAN, SPI, I2C, and serial I/O.
• Experience with programming or technical tools such as MATLAB, Python, C/C++, SPICE, SQL, or National Instruments hardware.
• Must be a U.S. person or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing under U.S. export-control requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience designing electronics for spaceflight environments.
• Experience with environmental testing, including random vibration, shock, thermal, burn-in, and TVAC.
• Experience in collegiate engineering project teams such as Formula SAE or Hybrid Electric Vehicle projects.
• Ability to solve problems creatively, assess risk, and make decisions with incomplete data.

Culture & Benefits

• Early-stage startup environment with opportunities to create and optimize key systems and processes.
• Full-time employees receive company equity and medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and access to a 401(k) plan.
• Additional benefits include ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare, discounts, and subsidized or complimentary meals and refreshments onsite.