Senior Satellite Flight Software Engineer (Satellite Communications)

Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States. Employment requires U.S. citizenship or nationality, permanent residency, refugee status, or asylum status.

Base pay for Washington applicants: $197,529.00–$276,539.55 annually. Other site ranges may differ.

Company

hirify.global develops reusable space vehicles and systems and is building TeraWave, a satellite communications network for high-throughput global connectivity.

What you will do

• Architect, develop, and integrate core flight software for a next-generation satellite platform.
• Define reusable, platform-independent software frameworks, services, and design patterns for multiple spacecraft configurations.
• Develop command and data handling, telemetry, health monitoring, and fault-management components.
• Partner with systems, avionics, GNC, communications, power, propulsion, thermal, payload, and autonomy teams on subsystem integration.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, technical trade studies, and software architecture standards.
• Build CI/CD infrastructure, automated test frameworks, debugging tools, and secure OTA update capabilities with validation, authentication, rollback, and version control.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of embedded software experience for spacecraft or other mission-critical real-time systems.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and Python.
• Experience with RTOS-based development using Embedded Linux, VxWorks, or QNX.
• Experience architecting complex flight software or mission-critical embedded systems and applying software lifecycle, CI/CD, verification, validation, and testing practices.
• Must meet U.S. export-control eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience with cFS, F Prime, or similar flight software frameworks.
• Experience with satellite constellations, distributed space systems, spacecraft networking, or optical inter-satellite links.
• Knowledge of satellite communications, high-throughput data handling, radiation-hardened computing, and fault-tolerant architectures.
• Experience with SIL, HIL, integrated spacecraft testing, static analysis, and automated verification frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, safety-focused, and inclusive workplace.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability coverage.
• Paid parental leave, paid time off, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• 401(k) with company matching of up to 5%.
• Education Support Program and stock options for eligible regular employees.