Principal Power Electronics Engineer I (Aerospace)

Location: El Segundo, California, United States; on-site. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, conditional residents, asylees, refugees, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Company

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

What you will do

• Define electrical power system architectures, derive subsystem requirements, and perform trade studies.
• Design DC-DC converters, motor drives, inverters, power management circuits, and control circuits from concept through production release.
• Model and analyze analog and power electronics designs, including worst-case, stress, reliability, FMEA, and power integrity analysis.
• Develop verification, integration, qualification, and production acceptance test plans and compliance matrices.
• Lead board bring-up, verification testing, system integration, qualification campaigns, production transition, and manufacturing support.
• Lead a small engineering team, mentor engineers, monitor industry trends, and generate intellectual property.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• At least 9 years of experience designing analog and power electronics.
• Experience with electrical power systems, power architectures, power requirements, SWAP-C trade studies, converter topologies, and power management and control blocks.
• Experience modeling and controlling isolated and non-isolated DC-DC converters and designing custom magnetics and power filters for low noise and EMC.
• Hands-on experience testing and troubleshooting electronics and power converters with laboratory instruments.
• Experience with schematic capture, PCB layout, circuit simulation, and analysis tools including Altium, OrCAD, Allegro, Xpedition, SPICE, PLECS, Simulink, MATLAB, MathCAD, ANSYS Q3D, SiWave, or HyperLynx.

Nice to have

• Master of Science or PhD in Electrical Engineering with a power electronics research focus.
• Experience with high-reliability electronics for automotive, space, or defense applications and knowledge of radiation effects.
• Experience with GaN or SiC devices, soft-switching and resonant converters, inverters, motor drives, fault-tolerant design, isolation, grounding, and thermal management.
• Knowledge of spacecraft power systems, including MPPT, battery management, electric propulsion, power conditioning, and power distribution units.
• Programming experience for hardware testing and data processing, including Python or MATLAB.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work in a dynamic cross-functional environment.
• Opportunities to collaborate, learn, develop, and share knowledge across the organization.
• Work focused on next-generation space and airborne communication systems.