Chief Engineer (Satellite Ground Systems)

Location: Hybrid in Denver, Colorado

Salary: $170K–$210K annually, plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops mission operations software and satellite ground systems for commercial and government space programs.

What you will do

• Serve as the program technical leader and Chief Engineer for complex commercial and government space programs.
• Coordinate technical alignment across mission software, platform infrastructure, reliability, security, and integration teams.
• Partner with engineering leads to resolve cross-system risks, interface challenges, and integration concerns.
• Contribute to system design, architecture development, technical strategy, proposals, and customer technical engagements.
• Conduct technical, design, and mission readiness reviews and support anomaly investigation and operational issue resolution.
• Mentor engineers and contribute directly through design, implementation, prototyping, and technical problem solving.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience developing, integrating, or operating aerospace, satellite, or mission-critical software systems.
• Experience with satellite ground systems, mission operations, command and control, or flight dynamics and mission planning tools.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, systems integration, distributed production systems, and operational reliability.
• Experience leading technical efforts across multidisciplinary engineering teams and communicating with software, operations, infrastructure, and customer stakeholders.
• Active U.S. Security Clearance required; TS/SCI preferred and Secret required.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, qualifying refugee or asylee, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. export authorizations.

Culture & Benefits

• Small team with direct impact on customers’ space missions.
• Employees must take 15 days off annually; unlimited PTO is also provided.
• Most U.S. federal government holidays are observed.
• Quarterly health and wellness benefits and comprehensive family health insurance with 100% employee coverage.
• 4% 401(k) matching.
• Annual four-day company offsite.