Senior Flight Software Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

Salary: $160,000–$200,000 per year, plus company equity

Company

hirify.global develops high-power satellite platforms for commercial and U.S. government missions ranging from low Earth orbit to deep space.

What you will do

• Create software architecture for real-time, fault-tolerant control of spacecraft exceeding 20 kW.
• Develop flight software for propulsion, guidance and attitude control, thermal, power, and communications systems.
• Design and implement state machines for robust spacecraft operation.
• Analyze telemetry and anomalies to identify and resolve software defects.
• Support spacecraft subsystem integration and testing.
• Build development and test infrastructure that improves software reliability and deployment speed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, or another STEM discipline, or 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Development experience with Rust, C/C++, Python, VHDL, and SystemVerilog.
• Must be a U.S. person under ITAR regulations or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export-control license.

Nice to have

• Spacecraft flight software, hard real-time embedded systems, Linux systems programming, or driver development experience.
• Experience with CI/CD, software verification, testing, performance analysis, and debugging.
• Knowledge of electronics, computer architecture, control systems, state machines, or Extended Kalman Filters.
• Experience designing fault-tolerant software and hardware-in-the-loop or hardware-out-of-the-loop test systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work across GNC algorithms, flight applications, embedded software, operating systems, HDL, and test systems.
• Opportunities to contribute to software operating on multiple spacecraft and demanding missions.
• Paid time off, medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and paid parental leave.
• Equity participation and support for reasonable accommodations during hiring.