Staff Flight Software Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Westminster, CO, United States; onsite

Salary: USD 158,000–189,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms.

What you will do

• Design and implement mission systems for satellites, ground stations, and mission operations centers.
• Develop, test, debug, document, review, and validate system software throughout the development lifecycle.
• Develop software to monitor, test, and control spacecraft subsystems including attitude, command and data handling, navigation, thermal, and power.
• Design software architecture, define requirements, create block diagrams, and support verification and validation.
• Analyze efficiency, stability, scalability, I/O performance, reliability, and fault recovery; provide post-production and in-orbit support.
• Interface with hardware engineers, assess third-party and open-source software, and direct, mentor, and grow spacecraft software engineers.

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in Software Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited institution.
• At least 8 years of industry experience in spacecraft software development; a Master's degree may count as two years of experience.
• Hands-on development and troubleshooting of software systems and hardware, including components such as motors and power distribution units.
• Experience with C, C++, Python, or other programming languages in an aerospace context, plus embedded software experience for space missions.
• Strong understanding of space missions from conception through flight and disposal, including events, pointing modes, maneuver planning, sequencing, and operations.
• Experience investigating spacecraft failures during post-CDR testing and on orbit, including root-cause analysis and recovery.
• Experience with reliability design, spaceflight redundancy, fault detection, identification and recovery, radiation-tolerance tradeoffs, and automotive-grade parts.
• Space software experience with attitude dynamics, coordinate-frame transformations, vector mathematics, radiative heat transfer, propulsion, communications, and power systems.
• Experience with TCP/IP or UDP for software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop laboratory development and spaceflight, integrating open-source software, and implementing physical first principles in scripts or spreadsheets.
• Experience with software release, revisioning, configuration, configuration-management tools, defect tracking, peer review, and continuous integration, testing, and delivery.
• Excellent understanding of multithreaded applications and resource management, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, conditional residents, asylees or refugees, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations under U.S. Government Space Technology Export Regulations.

Nice to have

• CubeSat or SmallSat experience, including LEO, MEO, GEO, or beyond.
• Hands-on experience with spacecraft instrumentation, subsystems, and test laboratories.
• Experience with JPL F’, NASA cFS, or other commercial space software frameworks.
• Ground-system software engineering experience for space missions.
• Team leadership experience on a space software program.
• Experience with other non-space safety-critical software programs or network security.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a dynamic, cross-functional, hands-on, interactive, and autonomous startup environment.
• Collaborate on a small team developing satellites and putting them into orbit.
• Full-time employment includes company stock options.
• Benefits include health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life and disability coverage, and retirement plans.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer.