Hardware Engineer (Space)

Location: Tempe, Arizona, United States. US citizenship required. Travel of up to 10% may be required.

Salary: $132,500–$209,500 annually. For specific locations in San Jose, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the New York City metropolitan area, the annual range is $164,500–$246,500.

Company

hirify.global develops global communication solutions for consumers, businesses, governments, and militaries.

What you will do

• Lead schematic capture and board-level design for high-speed digital hardware used in space applications.
• Define FPGA architecture, integrate SoCs, and design DDR4, SERDES, UART, and SPI interfaces.
• Develop mixed-signal circuits with ADC and DAC interfaces.
• Perform HyperLynx or equivalent power and signal integrity analysis and conduct worst case analysis across voltage and temperature conditions.
• Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team through requirements, design, verification, design reviews, and flight qualification.
• Support board bring-up, laboratory integration and debugging, hardware/firmware co-design, and resolution of technical issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 6+ years of hardware engineering experience with high-speed digital board design.
• Experience with schematic capture tools such as Mentor Xpedition or Cadence.
• Experience with FPGA architecture, SoC integration, mixed-signal design, ADC/DAC circuits, and high-speed interfaces.
• Experience with signal integrity simulation, worst case analysis, and space or flight hardware qualification processes.
• Demonstrated multidisciplinary engineering leadership and troubleshooting skills for complex high-speed digital hardware.

Nice to have

• MSEE degree.
• Experience with radiation-tolerant FPGAs, EEE-INST-002, NASA, or ESA parts selection and derating guidelines.
• Experience with power integrity analysis, PCB layout tools, and high-speed layout rules.
• Knowledge of thermal, mechanical, and radiation constraints for space hardware, including SEE and TID effects.
• Familiarity with GitHub, CI/CD practices, and AI agents.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on communication technologies serving global commercial, government, and military applications.
• Collaborate across hardware, firmware, software, systems, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Compensation may include additional cash or stock incentives.
• Benefits include medical, financial, and other wellness-focused offerings.