Flight Software Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Irvine, California, United States; onsite professional office and manufacturing environment. U.S. citizenship is required, with eligibility to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance and required U.S. government space technology authorizations.

Salary: $125,000–$150,000 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global manufactures satellite products and provides end-to-end satellite solutions for aerospace, defense, military, civil, and commercial customers.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain flight software for guidance, navigation, control, payload operations, power management, communications, autonomy, and fault protection.
• Develop software for imaging systems, advanced sensors, and propulsion-based maneuvers including aerobraking and lunar descent profiles.
• Write unit, integration, and regression tests and integrate software across high-fidelity simulators, hardware-in-the-loop testbeds, engineering development units, and flight-like spacecraft hardware.
• Collaborate with systems engineering, GNC, avionics, payload, and ground software teams on requirements, architecture, and interfaces.
• Support on-orbit commissioning and early satellite operations through debugging, telemetry analysis, and software tuning.
• Improve development processes, CI/CD pipelines, coding standards, and documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 2 years of experience developing C++ applications for embedded, real-time, or safety-critical systems.
• Strong understanding of embedded software concepts, including memory management, concurrency, and real-time constraints.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to work independently and effectively in a fast-moving team environment.
• U.S. citizenship with eligibility to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with ARM and Texas Instruments embedded processors and associated development environments.
• Linux development workflows and GNU toolchains, including Make, GCC, and GDB.
• Scripting with Bash and Python for automation and tooling.
• Aerospace industry experience, particularly satellite or space-mission software development.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a multidisciplinary spacecraft development team across the full software lifecycle, from requirements definition through on-orbit operations.
• Hands-on work with spacecraft hardware and simulation environments.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) match, flexible time off, education reimbursement, life insurance, and paid parental leave.
• Professional office environment within a manufacturing company; the role is generally sedentary with substantial computer usage and occasional lifting requirements.