Senior Simulation Software Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Mountain View, CA, United States

Estimated base salary: $215K–$300K annually, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops safety-enhancing automated aviation systems for autonomous aircraft and works across aerospace, robotics, and self-driving technologies.

What you will do

• Lead projects developing a robust, deterministic, and scalable software simulation framework for safety-critical systems.
• Shape simulation framework performance, reproducibility, flexibility, flight dynamics modeling, hardware emulation, and simulation-based test infrastructure.
• Collaborate with flight software, guidance/navigation/control, and hardware test engineers to expand simulation systems.
• Build infrastructure supporting development, testing, and deployment of autonomous aircraft software.
• Enable hardware-in-the-loop testing, high-fidelity physics simulation, and cloud-based Monte Carlo infrastructure for millions of flight-equivalent hours.
• Evaluate key technical decisions and mentor team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience in simulation systems within aviation, automotive, or comparable environments.
• 7+ years of professional experience with object-oriented C++ and Python or other scripting languages.
• Strong technical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent documentation and collaboration skills.
• Ability to provide documentation establishing U.S. person or non-U.S. person status and comply with applicable U.S. export-control requirements.

Nice to have

• Aircraft dynamics modeling experience.
• Experience developing simulations for safety-critical or DO-178 software and hardware systems.
• Experience architecting complex distributed and real-time software frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment within the Software & Embedded Systems department.
• Base compensation is supplemented by equity and stock options.
• Employee medical benefits and 401(k) contribution.
• Mission-driven, diverse, and inclusive engineering environment.
• Casual work environment and collaborative colleagues.

Hiring process

• An employment offer is contingent on the applicant’s capacity to comply with U.S. export-control laws.
• Applicants must provide documentation establishing U.S. person or non-U.S. person status and, where applicable, nationality information.
• Access to export-controlled technology may require U.S. government authorization; the company may decline to pursue an application or offer when authorization is required and not obtained.