Controls Engineer (Embedded C)

Location: Torrance, California, United States. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents due to customer and regulatory requirements. The role may involve export-controlled information and hardware, requiring compliance with applicable export control laws and access requirements.

Salary: $120,000–$140,000 annual base salary plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops modular motion control components for industrial, aerospace, and defense applications.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain embedded firmware for motion control and motor drive products, primarily in C.
• Contribute to firmware architecture focused on modularity, maintainability, testability, and real-time performance.
• Translate control algorithms into production-quality embedded code in collaboration with experienced controls and firmware engineers.
• Participate in code reviews, static analysis, unit testing, and integration testing.
• Bring up, debug, and validate control firmware on hardware in the laboratory.
• Document firmware architecture and interfaces, and help specify and execute verification test plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field.
• 2–4 years of professional embedded firmware development experience related to motion control.
• Strong C programming skills and understanding of modular firmware architecture, abstraction layers, and state machines.
• Knowledge of microcontrollers, interrupts, timers, and communication protocols including SPI, I2C, UART, and CAN.
• Experience with Git and collaborative software development workflows.
• U.S. citizenship or U.S. permanent residency is required; export-control compliance is also required.

Nice to have

• Exposure to motor control, field-oriented control, PWM generation, and current or position sensing.
• Experience with motion control loops, PI/PID tuning, digital filters, and Bode or FRF analysis.
• Familiarity with RTOS platforms such as FreeRTOS or ThreadX.
• Experience with model-based design, code generation, or embedded C unit-testing frameworks.
• Coursework or project experience in feedback control systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on next-generation motion technologies for aerospace, defense, and industrial systems.
• Collaborate with experienced controls and firmware engineers in a fast-paced aerospace environment.
• Relocation support is available.
• Medical insurance is fully covered by the company.
• Flexible PTO, 401(k), competitive compensation, and equity are offered.