Senior Systems Engineer II - RF Mission Solutions

Location: Long Beach, California, United States; based at hirify.global's global headquarters

Base salary: $132,000–$198,000 USD per year. Total compensation, including equity: $164,000–$255,000 USD per year.

Company

hirify.global is an end-to-end space company developing rockets, spacecraft, payloads, and critical subsystems for commercial, civil, and national security missions.

What you will do

• Architect clean-sheet RF payloads by running early mission trades and defining payload topologies, analog-to-digital conversion boundaries, waveform-processing constraints, and cryptographic integration.
• Own technical concepts for tactical satcom, space-based sensing, and direct-to-cell constellation missions.
• Work with customers and leadership to explain complex RF trade-offs, develop technical architecture narratives, and defend design decisions in proposals.
• Translate customer mission needs into payload prototyping, R&D priorities, and technology investments.
• Partner with payload hardware, software, and spacecraft teams to transition architectures into buildable flight-development designs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or another technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in aerospace or defense RF systems.
• Experience architecting complex multifunction RF, SAR/radar, or digital communication payloads from concept through proposal success.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance.
• For work in U.S. offices, candidates must meet applicable ITAR requirements, including U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residence, refugee or asylee status, or eligibility for required government authorizations.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in RF/microwave, electromagnetics, radar, or a related field.
• Experience with antennas, arrays, RF front-end architectures, TR modules, DSP, SAR, MTI, STAP, advanced waveforms, and spectrum management.
• Experience with digital payloads, RF-compute convergence, radiation effects, resilient RF architectures, and hardware-level post-quantum cryptography requirements.
• Experience using STK, MATLAB, Python, HFSS, or CST and understanding spacecraft bus impacts on payloads.
• RF-centric mission design and integration experience, with strong cross-functional communication and technical leadership.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced environment focused on rapid design, proposal, and hardware-development cycles.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, including HMO, PPO, and a zero-cost HDHP option with HSA contributions.
• Paid vacation and sick time, 11 paid holidays, paid parental leave, disability and life insurance, and a 401(k) with company match.
• Employee stock purchase program with a 15% discount and company stock included in total compensation.
• Additional benefits include subsidized EV charging, fitness and gym discounts, snacks and beverages, and employee discounts.