Senior RF Engineer II (Aerospace)

Location: Munich, Germany; Workplace: On-site

Company

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

What you will do

• Design and develop RF, mixed-signal, and digital hardware for electronically steered antenna communication systems.
• Develop RF front-end, power distribution, control, and interface circuitry for phased-array communication terminals.
• Own hardware modules and subsystems from requirements, trade studies, schematic capture, and PCB layout through integration, verification, production release, and deployment.
• Perform signal integrity, power integrity, thermal, reliability, and worst-case circuit analyses.
• Execute hardware bring-up, debugging, RF characterization, environmental qualification, compliance testing, and root-cause investigations.
• Support design reviews, customer evaluations, manufacturing transfer, field trials, and technical leadership of small hardware engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university.
• At least 6 years of relevant experience in board-level electronics design, analysis, and testing.
• Experience designing high-reliability electronics for space or defense applications, including part derating, worst-case analysis, and thermal constraints.
• Expertise in PCB layout, including HDI stack-up design and high-speed routing, with expert-level proficiency in Altium.
• Experience with board-level signal integrity or power integrity simulation tools such as Ansys SIwave, ADS SIPro, or Mentor HyperLynx.
• Extensive laboratory experience with hardware bring-up and verification, plus strong written and spoken communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience leading small teams developing multi-module assemblies.
• Knowledge of hardware design for space radiation environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, interactive, autonomous work in a cross-functional startup environment.
• Direct contribution to high-reliability space and airborne products.
• Opportunities for technical leadership, mentoring, and engineering best-practice development.