Senior Mission Software Engineer (Space)

Location: On-site in El Segundo, California, United States. Candidates must be U.S. persons authorized to access export-controlled technology.

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, 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 operator-grade mission-control interfaces and dashboards for integration, testing, and on-orbit operations.
• Create flight-software simulations, device emulators, scenario-based automated tests, and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks.
• Design and productionize CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, infrastructure-as-code, service templates, observability, and self-service mission tooling.
• Implement robust deployments across laboratory, test-stand, test-range, and mission-network environments, including safe rollbacks and air-gapped operations.

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 covering concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
• Experience with real-time data acquisition and distribution, low-latency messaging, time-series and relational databases, CI/CD, dependency and build systems, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with logging, metrics, tracing, Docker, Kubernetes, release management, phased rollouts, and controlled networks.
• Must be a U.S. person and authorized to work in the United States under ITAR requirements.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in C++, Ansible, and/or NiceGUI.
• Experience with data acquisition, closed-loop control, flight-software integration, simulation, and testing tools.
• Knowledge of safety-critical certification artifacts, ground-system standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade command interfaces.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with flexible paid time off and 12 paid holidays.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, with FSA and employer-matched HSA options.
• Parental leave, family-building support, wellness reimbursement, and sponsored One Medical memberships.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% employer match, incentive equity, and cell phone reimbursement.
• Relocation support may be available for new hires, with meals, team events, and complimentary EV charging at the workplace.