Senior Embedded Software Designer (Aerospace)

Location: Remote within Canada or the United States.

Company

hirify.global develops real-time on-orbit connectivity, optical data relay, and space communications capabilities for spacecraft and ground-based systems.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain reliable embedded software for spacecraft and ground-based systems supporting a growing satellite fleet.
• Design and implement secure communications capabilities, including encryption, authentication, and key exchange.
• Build and maintain low-level software components, including device drivers, kernel modules, hardware interfaces, and platform services.
• Develop automated tests, validation tools, and technical documentation.
• Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews while collaborating with software, hardware, and operations teams.
• Identify performance, reliability, and architecture issues; drive improvements; and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience developing embedded software for complex, high-reliability systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, debugging, testing, performance analysis, and maintainable code development.
• Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems, including concurrency, interrupt handling, memory-mapped peripherals, and SPI, I2C, UART, and CAN interfaces.
• Experience with embedded Linux and/or RTOS environments, including Yocto/OpenEmbedded and FreeRTOS.
• Experience developing Linux kernel modules, device drivers, and device tree integrations.
• Experience developing and maintaining automated test frameworks, validation tooling, or hardware/software integration test environments.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills across software, hardware, and operations teams.
• Proficiency with Git-based version control and code review practices; willingness to effectively use AI-assisted engineering tools.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience developing software for aerospace applications.
• Experience with secure boot, hardware security modules, certificate and key management, authentication, or encrypted communications.
• Familiarity with Linux networking, including routing, interfaces, netlink, and packet-processing pipelines.
• Experience developing multi-stage bootloaders.
• Strong knowledge of computer networking and modern networking protocols.
• Experience with RTL using Verilog and/or VHDL and embedded SoCs.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement within Canada or the United States.
• Full-time contract engagement of 6+ months.
• Competitive compensation with an equity plan.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance, including dependents.
• Unlimited vacation, parental leave, company holiday shutdown, and a $1,500 annual professional development fund.
• Relocation packages are available for approved roles; frequent in-office events are held at the Toronto office.