Senior Software Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Hybrid in Washington, DC, United States. Applicants must hold an active U.S. Secret security clearance and satisfy U.S. Government export-control eligibility requirements.

Salary: $140,000–$180,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops software supporting real-world spacecraft operations and mission-critical space missions.

What you will do

• Lead the design and implementation of mission-planning, scheduling, optimization, and operational-automation systems.
• Develop and validate algorithms for complex planning and resource-allocation problems across large solution spaces.
• Build high-performance APIs and distributed services for low-latency, compute-intensive workloads.
• Improve scalability, reliability, observability, and operational readiness of mission-critical systems.
• Collaborate with software engineers, flight dynamics engineers, satellite operators, frontend engineers, product leaders, and operations.
• Shape technical direction, mentor engineers, and use automation and AI-assisted development to improve engineering quality.

Requirements

• Strong Python proficiency and deep experience building and operating production backend systems.
• Experience with high-performance, low-latency, compute-intensive, or data-intensive software.
• Applied experience with optimization, scheduling, search, planning, resource allocation, or operations-research methods.
• Knowledge of algorithms, data structures, computational complexity, performance analysis, APIs, distributed systems, relational databases, containers, cloud applications, testing, CI/CD, and observability.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, aerospace engineering, applied mathematics, operations research, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; 6+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Active U.S. Secret security clearance and eligibility under U.S. Government export regulations are required.

Nice to have

• Experience with flight dynamics, orbital mechanics, astrodynamics, spacecraft operations, or aerospace modeling and simulation.
• Hands-on experience with cislunar mission design, trajectory planning, or Earth-Moon system operations.
• Experience translating ambiguous operational needs into planning, optimization, and software problems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on technology supporting real-world space missions.
• Collaborate in a small team with opportunities to influence technical direction and company evolution.
• Unlimited PTO, at least 15 days off annually, and most U.S. federal holidays.
• Quarterly health and wellness benefits, comprehensive health insurance, and 100% employee coverage.
• 4% 401(k) match and an annual four-day company offsite.