Senior Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer (Python)

Location: On-site in El Segundo, California, United States. U.S. person status and lawful authorization to work in the United States are required because the role provides access to export-controlled technology.

Salary: $169,067–$216,031 per year, plus potential stock options and/or long-term cash awards.

Company

hirify.global develops commercial space infrastructure, including in-orbit pharmaceutical processing, reentry capsules, heat shields, and satellite buses, with vehicles and systems built, integrated, and tested in-house.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain high-reliability ground-segment services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding, supporting real-time operations and post-flight analysis.
• Build operator-grade mission-control UIs and dashboards for integration, testing, and on-orbit operations.
• Create flight-software simulations, device emulators, scenario-based automated tests, and test tools for avionics, GNC, and mission operations teams.
• Design and productionize self-service mission-platform tooling, including CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure-as-code, hardware-in-the-loop frameworks, test harnesses, and observability.
• Develop deployment patterns for laboratory benches, test stands, and mission networks, including safe rollout and rollback strategies for air-gapped or limited-connectivity environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
• 5+ years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
• Expertise in Python and strong understanding of its language concepts.
• Strong systems fundamentals covering concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
• Experience building real-time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services using low-latency messaging, time-series stores, and relational stores.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, and infrastructure-as-code.
• End-to-end observability experience with logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, release management, phased rollouts, and operational readiness for controlled networks.
• U.S. person status and lawful authorization to work in the United States are required.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in C++, Ansible, and/or NiceGUI.
• Experience with data acquisition and closed-loop control in laboratory or test-control environments.
• Prior work on CI, testing, simulation, or data tools integrated with flight-software teams.
• Experience with requirements, test, and certification artifacts from safety-critical or certified workflows.
• Knowledge of ground-systems standards and security in mission networks.
• Experience building mission-grade UIs with structured command workflows, alarming, and situational awareness.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with spacecraft, avionics, RF/ground systems, and mission-operations software.
• Work on-site at hirify.global’s headquarters, offices, and production facility in El Segundo.
• Eligibility for stock options and/or long-term cash incentives.
• Inclusive equal-opportunity workplace with evaluation based on merit, qualifications, and performance.