Mission Software Engineer II (Space)

Location: On-site in El Segundo, California, United States

Salary: $144,020–$184,026 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 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 self-service mission-platform tooling, including CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, infrastructure-as-code, service templates, test harnesses, and observability.
• Implement reliable deployment, phased rollout, rollback, and limited-connectivity strategies for lab benches, test stands, and mission networks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
• At least 3 years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
• Expertise in Python and strong understanding of concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
• Experience building real-time data acquisition, low-latency messaging, scaling, and distribution services using time-series and relational stores.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, infrastructure-as-code, logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Must work on-site in El Segundo and be authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. person due to ITAR-controlled technology access.

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 safety-critical certification workflows, ground-system standards, mission-network security, or 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% immediately vested employer match and incentive equity.
• Relocation support for new hires, daily lunch, twice-weekly dinner, team events, and complimentary EV charging.