Staff Engineer, Embedded Firmware (Aerospace)

Location: Dallas, Texas; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops avionics software, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence applications for unmanned aerial vehicles.

What you will do

• Develop high-performance, reliable, and safety-critical C/C++ firmware for V-BAT aircraft.
• Build and maintain software architectures, requirements, designs, and verification processes.
• Integrate RTOS platforms, custom system-on-modules, avionics sensors, payloads, and aircraft subsystems.
• Convert legacy bare-metal software to RTOS-based systems and develop firmware for robotic vehicles in flight.
• Create CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, virtualized hardware, hardware-in-the-loop simulations, and deployment tools.
• Coordinate software integration across firmware, test and verification, autonomy AI, ground control stations, and production teams.

Requirements

• Strong software development experience in C/C++ and bare-metal embedded firmware development.
• Experience with Linux kernel or RTOS development, device trees, and bringing up new hardware.
• Familiarity with thread-safe, multithreaded programming.
• Experience owning development processes and features, shipping products, and delivering solutions in fast-paced environments.
• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in systems engineering, software engineering, computer science, or another STEM discipline.
• Ability to work on-site in Dallas, Texas.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous robotic systems and motor control.
• Experience in startup or R&D environments.
• Adaptability and the ability to innovate under pressure.