Control Panel Designer (UL 508A)

Location: Inglewood, California, United States. Applicants must be U.S. persons under ITAR export-control requirements.

Salary: $124,000–$153,800 per year

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures alternate mission equipment for military aerospace and vehicle platforms as part of the Marvin Group.

What you will do

• Develop industrial control-panel enclosure and back-panel layouts, including component arrangement, wireways, terminals, operator devices, thermal management, spacing, service access, and maintainability.
• Select and integrate enclosures, disconnects, protection devices, power supplies, terminals, wiring materials, and related accessories.
• Create and maintain schematics, wiring and termination documentation, panel-layout drawings, bills of material, labels, assembly instructions, and revision-controlled build packages.
• Apply design-for-manufacture and design-for-assembly practices while coordinating fabrication, workmanship, traceability, inspection, and compliance reviews.
• Support prototype and production builds, continuity and point-to-point checks, power-up readiness, hardware functional checks, troubleshooting, corrective actions, and engineering changes.
• Define hardware interface documentation for PLC, distributed I/O, network, and HMI connections; PLC programming, HMI configuration, and commissioning are outside the role.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation and Controls, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Automation, Mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 4 years of experience developing industrial control-panel enclosures and layouts from requirements through released fabrication and build documentation.
• Proficiency creating electrical schematics, wiring and termination documentation, bills of material, labels, and revision-controlled drawing packages using electrical CAD tools.
• Working knowledge of industrial control components, conductor and terminal practices, overcurrent protection, grounding and bonding, enclosure selection, panel thermal management, and UL 508A-aware design under qualified review.
• Must satisfy U.S. person requirements under ITAR: U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, political asylee, or refugee.

Nice to have

• Experience with qualified panel shops, ruggedized enclosures, shelters, power-distribution systems, prototypes, or repeatable production builds.
• Familiarity with short-circuit current rating concepts, component traceability, manufacturing test documentation, supplier coordination, or quality-system corrective actions.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on military aerospace and vehicle systems supporting the Department of Defense and global allies.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, qualified panel-shop, and quality personnel.
• Employment is subject to export-control compliance and employment eligibility verification through E-Verify.
• Equal opportunity employer with disability and veteran support.