Digital Electrical Engineer

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States; on-site. Candidates must be U.S. citizens, lawful U.S. permanent residents, protected individuals, or eligible to obtain the authorizations required under U.S. export regulations such as ITAR.

Estimated base salary: $130,000–$185,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is a startup developing flexible, high-performance RF products and services for demanding space and defense missions.

What you will do

• Design high-speed digital hardware with processors, FPGAs, memory, interfaces, and supporting circuitry.
• Evaluate board architectures and component selections through engineering trades and analyses.
• Create schematics and layouts for space-grade PCBs using EDA tools.
• Bring up and test new designs, including debugging SoC systems across bare-metal, bootloader, and Linux layers.
• Collaborate with RF, FPGA, software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, supply chain, and production test teams from initial design through vehicle integration.
• Design for performance, thermal dissipation, manufacturing, acceptance, qualification, compliance, and radiation-environment requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or another STEM discipline.
• At least 3 years of professional experience designing high-speed digital circuitry.
• Professional experience designing boards with EDA tools such as Altium Designer.
• Experience designing and debugging Xilinx RFSoC, MPSoC, or equivalent systems.
• Experience with modeling, simulation, and testing of digital and power electronics.
• Familiarity with failure mode effects and criticality analysis (FMEA).

Nice to have

• Experience taking mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production.
• Experience with Ethernet, multi-GHz SerDes, DDR4, I2C, SPI, amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, and power supply components.
• Experience designing power trees with complex sequencing requirements.
• Experience selecting and monitoring components for radiation environments.
• Deep understanding of volatile and nonvolatile memory configuration and interfacing.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on highly integrated hardware for space communication and defense applications.
• Collaborate across software, RF, FPGA, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and production test disciplines.
• Offers equity in addition to base salary.
• Equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodation support are provided throughout the hiring process.