Senior Space Mission Software Engineer

Location: On-site in El Segundo, California, United States. Relocation support may be available for new hires.

Salary: $169,067–$216,031 per year, plus potential stock options and/or long-term cash awards.

Company

hirify.global develops commercial space infrastructure, including in-orbit pharmaceutical processing systems, reentry capsules, heat shields, and satellite buses.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain high-reliability ground segment services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding.
• Build mission-control UIs and dashboards for integration, testing, and on-orbit operations.
• Create flight-software simulations, device emulators, and scenario-based automated tests.
• Design self-service mission platform tooling, including CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, infrastructure-as-code, test harnesses, and observability.
• Deploy software across lab benches, test stands, and mission networks using safe rollout and rollback strategies.
• Support deployments in air-gapped and limited-connectivity environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
• 5+ years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
• Strong Python expertise and systems fundamentals in concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
• Experience building real-time data acquisition, low-latency messaging, scaling, and distribution services with time-series and relational databases.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, infrastructure-as-code, logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, release management, phased rollouts, and operational readiness for controlled networks.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States and qualify as a U.S. person under ITAR requirements.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in C++, Ansible, and/or NiceGUI.
• Experience with data acquisition, closed-loop control, and lab or test-control environments.
• Experience integrating CI, testing, simulation, or data tools with flight-software teams.
• Knowledge of ground-systems standards, mission-network security, and safety-critical certification workflows.
• Experience building mission-grade UIs with structured command workflows, alarming, and situational awareness.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with flexible PTO and 12 paid holidays.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, with FSA and employer-matched HSA options.
• Parental leave, family-building support, and wellness reimbursement.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% immediately vested employer match.
• Equity incentives, cell phone reimbursement, stocked kitchen, catered meals, team events, and complimentary EV charging.