Principal Technical Director, AI-Enabled Spectrum Dominance

Location: Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles, California; or Seattle, Washington. US citizenship is required to obtain and maintain a US Government clearance.

Salary: $225,000–$300,000 USD annually, plus discretionary annual bonus and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops defense, national security, and space technologies, including mission-critical systems from ground to orbit.

What you will do

• Define the technical roadmap for spectrum dominance programs spanning RF, electronic warfare, radar, sensing, and space-based active and passive systems.
• Lead the application of the Agentic Computational Engineering platform to RF hardware design, DSP algorithm development, and end-to-end system integration.
• Direct domain-specific AI agents for electromagnetic simulation, transceiver architecture, waveform design, interference analysis, and signal-chain optimization.
• Architect RF systems connecting DSP algorithms, software-defined radio hardware, FPGA/SoC platforms, and mission software across space and ground segments.
• Lead advanced R&D programs from research and prototyping through deployment, productization, and commercialization.
• Build and mentor multidisciplinary teams of RF engineers, DSP developers, and AI/ML engineers while supporting government proposals and customer opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Direct experience designing, developing, and deploying space-based active or passive RF systems, including experience with radiation hardening, thermal management, power budgets, and long-duration reliability.
• Deep expertise in complete RF systems, including RF front ends, digital subsystems, communications, electronic warfare, radar, or sensing.
• Extensive experience with software-defined radio systems, modern transceiver architectures, FPGA/SoC platforms, DSP, and RF machine learning algorithms.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary hardware, software, RF, FPGA, and AI/ML teams through advanced R&D programs and delivering technical milestones for government customers.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a US Government clearance; US citizenship is required.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Active U.S. Top Secret / SCI security clearance and experience with DoD or Intelligence Community space-based RF payload programs.
• Experience with agentic AI, LLM-based design tools, automated simulation frameworks, generative design platforms, or agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph or AutoGen.
• Experience with HFSS, CST, FEKO, or equivalent electromagnetic simulation tools.
• Experience productizing advanced R&D, preparing government proposals, and working with orbit-specific RF considerations such as Doppler compensation, link budgets, anti-jam architectures, and LPI waveforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within the Advanced Technology Development team on high-impact, high-ROI technology and product R&D.
• Collaborate across spectrum dominance, ACE, propulsion, electronics, manufacturing, product, and business development teams.
• Travel up to 25% to customer sites, test ranges, and Voyager locations.
• Benefits include paid time off, comprehensive health coverage, retirement savings, wellness programs, and other compensation benefits.