Senior Ground Software Engineer (Telemetry & Control)

Location: San Francisco, United States. Working in the office five days a week is an essential part of the role.

Salary: $175K–$250K annually.

Company

hirify.global is a vertically integrated aerospace startup developing a scalable technology platform for critical infrastructure, mission operations, and the future of flight.

What you will do

• Architect and build the end-to-end ground data pipeline, from aircraft radio telemetry ingestion through real-time processing, storage, backend APIs, business logic, and Mission Control visualization.
• Drive approximately one-second latency from aircraft to operator display across the entire system.
• Design fault-tolerant systems that protect aircraft operations during network failures, service crashes, and cloud-region outages.
• Select and operate database technologies, including time-series databases, for flight telemetry.
• Build operator tools for monitoring aircraft health and commanding the plane.
• Define aircraft-to-ground interfaces with flight software and other engineering disciplines.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or a Science discipline and 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience building real-time data or telemetry ingestion and processing systems.
• Experience implementing a cloud stack that ingests data, stores it in a database, and processes it to serve an application.
• Hands-on experience with time-series databases and a strong understanding of trade-offs between database technologies and data-ingestion approaches.
• Experience designing low-latency, high-reliability systems, including fault tolerance for network and service failures.
• Proficiency in the languages, frameworks, and API design used to expose database data to applications.
• Breadth across the stack, with greatest depth on the backend and cloud side; experience with every layer is not required.

Nice to have

• Front-end experience building web applications that query a server and render live data.
• Experience with telemetry from physical systems such as aircraft, launch vehicles, satellites, autonomous vehicles, or connected vehicle fleets; radio links; or mission-control and observability tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced startup environment with a flat structure, pragmatic engineering culture, and direct mission impact.
• In-office work five days a week is essential for collaboration.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including Flexible Spending Accounts.
• 401(k) program and transparent stock option plan.
• Self-managed flexible time off, including PTO, paid holidays, and sick time.