Avionics Ground Systems Engineer (Electrical)

Location: Redondo Beach, United States; onsite

Salary: $100,000–$160,000 per year, plus potential stock options and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is an in-space transportation company developing spacecraft and propulsion systems for orbital transport, payload deployment, and precision reentry.

What you will do

• Own electrical ground-system hardware through architecture, schematic development, fabrication, integration, validation, and deployment.
• Develop power, instrumentation, communications, data acquisition, command, telemetry, and control interfaces for ground support equipment.
• Design and integrate rack-level equipment, harnesses, enclosures, and vehicle interface hardware.
• Perform system-level electrical testing, integration, troubleshooting, and fault isolation.
• Support vehicle test operations and launch campaigns with real-time ground-system troubleshooting.
• Define and procure commercial instrumentation, networking, computing, and interface hardware while maintaining system documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 2 years of experience designing, building, and deploying electrical ground support equipment, avionics integration hardware, or other high-reliability electrical systems.
• Strong understanding of signal integrity, grounding, shielding, EMI/EMC, and power distribution.
• At least 1 year of experience specifying, procuring, integrating, and testing electrical, instrumentation, networking, and computing hardware.
• Familiarity with Ethernet, RS-422, CAN, TCP/IP, CAT5, and serial protocols.
• Applicants must be U.S. Persons or eligible to obtain an export license under applicable U.S. export regulations.

Nice to have

• Experience with rack-level systems, harnessing, enclosure integration, avionics, or RF products.
• Knowledge of electrical safety practices including circuit protection, E-stops, safety relays, interlocks, and hazardous-operation power distribution.
• Experience with NX, Python, MATLAB, test automation, controls software, schematic capture, or EPlan.
• Experience supporting launch campaigns, propulsion testing, or integrated vehicle operations.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on hardware development in a fast-paced aerospace environment.
• Cross-functional collaboration with avionics, RF, propulsion, software, structures, test, integration, and operations teams.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage for eligible full-time hires.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan and potential long-term incentives in the form of stock options.

Hiring process

• Application and resume review.
• Introductory and technical phone interviews.
• Onsite interview followed by an offer for successful candidates.