Senior Software Engineer II (Flight Software)

Location: Tucson, Arizona, United States; onsite work in a U.S. office

Company

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

What you will do

• Support the development of payload flight software for Space Systems programs.
• Design and deploy novel algorithms in austere, size-, weight-, and power-constrained sensor environments.
• Contribute to software design and development from requirements generation through implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Develop performance-oriented software using accelerator technologies and parallel processing approaches.
• Build flight software for spacecraft supporting the U.S. Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering.
• 8+ years of embedded software engineering experience.
• Experience designing complex multithreaded applications and flight software.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
• For U.S. office roles, eligibility to work with ITAR-regulated technology is required, including U.S. citizenship, lawful U.S. permanent residence, qualifying refugee or asylum status, or the ability to obtain the required authorizations.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-performance and parallel processing.
• Exposure to FPGA, CUDA, and other novel architectures.
• Familiarity with flight software system management and numerical computing principles.
• Experience implementing algorithms.
• Exposure to Python and MATLAB.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on real spacecraft, payloads, and space systems for ambitious missions.
• Collaborate on challenging projects involving defense, intelligence, and space exploration applications.
• Operate in a fast-paced environment focused on innovation, teamwork, and tight deadlines.
• The role may involve prolonged sitting, standing, walking, computer work, and occasional exposure to moderate noise, dust, and fumes in production areas.