Senior Engineer, Safety-Critical Software (C++)

Location: San Diego, California, United States; Workplace: On-site

Company

hirify.global develops resilient autonomy and intelligence products for aircraft and other platforms operating in complex environments.

What you will do

• Develop, integrate, and test configurable Run-Time Assurance components that monitor autonomy behavior and support safe operation.
• Adapt reusable C++ safety capabilities into production runtime components, including interfaces, configuration, and automated tests.
• Implement real-time C++ software between mission autonomy, high-assurance middleware, and flight-control interfaces.
• Integrate safety-critical software with aircraft hardware for hardware-in-the-loop and flight-test campaigns, including multi-agent collaborative operations.
• Produce engineering evidence through CI, static and dynamic analysis, code reviews, documentation, system models, test results, and traceability artifacts.
• Share safe software practices through design discussions, technical documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree, 4 years with a Master’s degree, 2 years with a PhD, or equivalent experience.
• Strong modern C++ development skills, including testing, debugging, and performance-aware design.
• Experience with real-time, embedded, robotics, autonomy, aerospace, or similarly constrained systems.
• Experience integrating software with hardware, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, or production-like test environments.
• Familiarity with C++ design patterns, Git, Linux, CI/CD, test-focused development, and existing software architectures.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and collaborate across software, systems, test, and platform teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomy middleware, interface definitions, Python configuration tooling, CMake, Conan, or reusable C++ libraries.
• Experience with safety-critical practices, static analysis, coding standards, traceability, and requirements-based testing.
• Experience with MISRA C++, JSF AV C++, MIL-HDBK-516, DO-178C, or equivalent safety and airworthiness standards.
• Experience taking software components through verification, qualification, or certification evidence review.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on production autonomy and safety capabilities for aircraft and collaborative combat aircraft platforms.
• Collaborate across software, systems, test, and platform engineering teams.
• Participate in hardware-in-the-loop and flight-test campaigns.