Sr. Staff Software Engineer (Embedded)

Location: Moorpark, California, United States; office and R&D environment with periodic travel to flight-test and program sites.

Salary: $147,000–$250,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous and unmanned systems across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains, including AI-powered drones and defense technologies.

What you will do

• Lead the design, development, coding, testing, debugging, and optimization of embedded software for aircraft, payloads, sensors, processors, radios, and robotic systems.
• Integrate sensors and embedded processors, support hardware selection, and define processing, memory, and storage requirements.
• Write system requirements, test plans, diagnostic tools, validation procedures, and proof-of-concept demonstrations.
• Lead rapid prototyping, estimate development effort, and scope software work against program timelines and budgets.
• Guide the transition of development software into production and certification while contributing to software quality and configuration management.
• Lead technical teams of 3–6 people and collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering and program teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace, mechanical engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 12–15 years of relevant experience.
• Professional proficiency in Python, C, C++, object-oriented development, and troubleshooting complex systems.
• Experience with Visual Studio, Eclipse, or a similar IDE and defect-tracking tools.
• Experience with RS-485, RS-232, CAN, I2C, SPI, and USB protocols.
• Experience troubleshooting real-time systems from the application layer through communications, drivers, and board-support layers.
• Strong mathematical, analytical, written, verbal communication, ownership, research, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience leading technical teams of 3–6 people and collaborating across functions.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, protected asylee/refugee, or a person approved for an applicable export license under ITAR/EAR requirements.
• Must be able to travel within the continental United States and internationally when required.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree.
• Unit testing, test-driven development, CI/CD, build-pipeline updates, and professional coding standards or linters.
• Comms bus drivers, sensor-driver integration, radio/servo/actuator integration, board bring-up, board-support packages, ARM and STM32 processors.
• Verilog, VHDL, microcontroller RTOS, Integrity, VxWorks, electronics instrumentation, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and network analyzers.
• Embedded development in robotics, drones, vehicle systems, or medical systems; autopilot development with Ardupilot, PX4, or INAV.
• Aerospace or defense experience, systems or test engineering, and formal peer-reviewed requirements using DOORS, Jira, or Xray.
• LLM-assisted software development and general aviation or remote-control fixed-wing piloting experience; Part 91 or Part 107 licenses are a plus.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time regular employment in an office and R&D environment.
• Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits with company matching.
• Flexible work schedule options; selected programs may offer a 9/80 schedule and paid holiday shutdown.
• Periodic travel and occasional irregular hours, weekends, holidays, and field-test work may be required around deadlines.
• Fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with small teams sharing broad responsibilities.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted from principals only; agencies are not requested.
• Employment is subject to the stated U.S. person or export-license eligibility requirements for ITAR/EAR-controlled information.