Senior Electrical Engineer II (Robotics)

Location: Pasadena, California, United States; onsite at hirify.global Robotics

Base pay: $124,000–$212,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global is an end-to-end space company developing rockets, spacecraft, avionics, robotic systems, and other critical subsystems for space exploration, satellite servicing, and national security missions.

What you will do

• Own electrical hardware development for robotics and motor control applications from requirements and architecture through design, prototyping, testing, and production.
• Make architecture decisions for control systems involving FPGAs and microcontrollers.
• Develop PCBA requirements and perform design verification and system integration testing with multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Capture schematics and create PCB layouts using Altium Designer.
• Lead environmental qualification activities, including EMI/EMC, TVAC, shock, and vibration testing.
• Mentor support engineers, assist manufacturing, and lead failure analysis and root-cause investigations for hardware in test, integration, or on-orbit operation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of electrical hardware design experience.
• Experience developing blank-sheet design concepts, FPGA-based PCBA designs, motor control applications, and analog signal chains.
• Proficiency with circuit analysis using SPICE, board bring-up, and hardware debugging.
• U.S. citizenship is required due to program requirements.

Nice to have

• FPGA firmware development with Verilog, including creating IP from scratch, and experience with Field-Oriented Control.
• Experience with switch-mode power supplies, space electronics, radiation mitigation, rigid-flex PCBs, and electromechanical design.
• Experience with PCBA verification and validation, EMI/EMC and environmental testing, FMEA, parametric or worst-case analysis, Librero, and Simulink.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee stock and an Employee Stock Purchase Program with a 15% discount.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, including HMO, PPO, and zero-cost HDHP options with HSA contributions.
• Paid vacation and sick time, 11 paid holidays, paid parental leave, disability and life insurance, and a 401(k) with company match.
• Subsidized EV charging, onsite fitness centers where available, gym membership discounts, snacks and beverages, and employee discounts.
• Work involves fast-paced space hardware development, close multidisciplinary collaboration, tight deadlines, and hands-on engineering ownership.