Senior Autonomy & Guidance Software Engineer

Location: Full-time onsite in Hawthorne/Los Angeles, California, United States. U.S. Person status is required to access U.S.-only data systems.

Salary: $160,000–$240,000 annual base compensation, excluding bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops advanced sensing, detection, and distributed network systems for defense, aviation, and border protection applications.

What you will do

• Design and implement guidance and navigation software for a clean-sheet airframe.
• Develop guidance software within commercial off-the-shelf software frameworks, including autopilot platforms.
• Support airframe design activities and flight hardware software integration.
• Develop real-time embedded software and hardware interfaces on microcontroller and Linux-based architectures.
• Integrate vendor-provided low-level drivers and firmware.
• Collaborate with a small engineering team across product families and work independently with minimal supervision.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional object-oriented software development experience.
• Experience designing and implementing guidance algorithms for UAS platforms using commercial autopilot frameworks such as ArduPilot.
• Practical understanding of fixed-wing and rotary-wing flight dynamics.
• Extensive experience with STM32 or similar microcontroller architectures and Linux on Nvidia Jetson, AMD/Xilinx SoC, or Microblaze platforms.
• Experience with Agile development, Scrum, Continuous Integration, and Test-Driven Development.

Nice to have

• Current or previous DoD security clearance and Part 107 remote pilot certification.
• Experience integrating EO/IR or radar sensors.
• Experience with VHDL, AMD/Xilinx FPGAs, Git, DevOps, DevSecOps, or CI/CD.
• Experience with production-level, full-lifecycle software development and high-TRL system integration, testing, and verification.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits fully paid by the company.
• 401(k) with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay, plus FSA, HSA, and life insurance.
• Free daily lunch and a fully stocked kitchen.
• Unlimited paid time off and a casual dress code.
• Relocation assistance and pre-IPO stock option grants; annual bonuses are planned.