Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer – Software (Embedded Systems)

Location: Westminster, Colorado, United States; onsite. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, conditional residents, asylees, refugees, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Salary: USD 133,908–160,991 per year.

Company

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

What you will do

• Decompose customer, mission, and system requirements into clear, verifiable software requirements and maintain traceability to system architecture and CONOPS.
• Develop software verification approaches, descriptions, methods, acceptance criteria, configurations, traceability matrices, and evidence packages.
• Coordinate systems and software engineering activities including integration planning, readiness reviews, release coordination, and verification execution.
• Evaluate software changes, interfaces, firmware and hardware revisions for impacts on system behavior, interoperability, performance, and verification scope.
• Support embedded interface definition and validation across processors, sensors, payloads, external systems, communication protocols, and subsystem interactions.
• Support PI planning and execution readiness, prioritize requirements and verification work, mentor junior engineers, and improve systems/software collaboration.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, plus 5–8 years of experience in systems engineering, software engineering, embedded systems, or integration environments.
• Experience decomposing system requirements into software-level requirements and creating verification plans, descriptions, procedures, or acceptance criteria.
• Strong understanding of embedded systems and software development lifecycles.
• Experience with hardware/software interfaces and communication protocols, including TCP/IP, UDP, Serial, USB, Ethernet, and APIs.
• Ability to interpret and apply system-level CONOPS to engineering execution.
• Programming experience with Python, C++, C, Java, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience with Git, IDEs, debuggers, CI/CD platforms, operating systems including Linux, Windows, and Unix, requirements tools, issue tracking systems, and automated test tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a dynamic, cross-functional engineering environment with hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work.
• Benefits include company stock options, health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life and disability coverage, and retirement plans.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer.