Staff Power Electronics Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Westminster, Colorado, United States. On-site, full-time. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, conditional residents, asylees, refugees, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Salary: $158,000–$189,000 per year, plus stock options and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms.

What you will do

• Lead power system architecture development, trade studies, and power subsystem requirements definition.
• Design DC-DC converters, power supplies, power distribution systems, and single-phase and three-phase AC-DC systems from low power to more than 20 kW.
• Perform circuit, stress, small-signal, power-integrity, reliability, thermal, and failure-mode analyses.
• Develop verification, qualification, integration, compliance, and production acceptance test plans.
• Lead board bring-up, design verification, system integration, qualification campaigns, and production release.
• Mentor engineers and lead a small power electronics team through project execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Electrical Engineering.
• At least 8 years of experience designing analog and power electronics.
• Experience with power architectures, requirements, SWAP-C trade studies, converter topologies, and power management and control blocks.
• Experience designing, testing, and qualifying AC-DC and DC-DC power supplies for industrial, airborne, or military systems.
• Knowledge of control theory, power electronics stability, control-loop characterization, power filters, EMC, isolation, grounding, fault tolerance, and thermal management.
• Hands-on laboratory experience with oscilloscopes, impedance analyzers, spectrum analyzers, electronic loads, and signal generators, plus strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with isolated and non-isolated converter topologies, custom power magnetics, PFC converters, active rectifiers, soft switching, and resonant converters.
• Experience with vendor statements of work, selection, and management.
• Experience with Altium, OrCAD, Allegro, Xpedition, Ansys SiWave, or HyperLynx.
• Programming experience in Python or MATLAB for hardware testing and data processing.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, interactive, autonomous, cross-functional engineering environment.
• Opportunities to learn, develop, and collaborate across the organization.
• Full-time employment with company stock options.
• Health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement benefits.