Flight Software & Simulator Group Director (Embedded Software)

Location: Hybrid, Tokyo, Sumida-ku, Japan. Candidates must be from an Export Safe Country designated by the Japanese Government: Japan, Germany, Australia, Argentina, Italy, USA, France, Netherlands, UK, Austria, Ireland, Czech, Spain, Greece, Canada, New Zealand, Belgium, Bulgaria, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Denmark, Hungary, or Poland.

Salary: JPY 8M+ annually.

Company

hirify.global develops aerospace technologies and services focused on satellite operations and space sustainability.

What you will do

• Own the budget, delivery, and quality of flight software covering satellite and sensor control, image processing, and simulator development.
• Assign work, manage progress, set goals, and provide medium- and long-term training and guidance for group members.
• Resolve and improve flight software and simulator development issues in cooperation with other groups.
• Manage software vendors and strategically plan the scope and expansion of in-house flight software development.
• Improve development efficiency through process improvements, simulator preparation, and tool introduction.
• Lead hiring, labor-hour, health and safety, security, and people-development activities across multiple multinational teams and their managers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of embedded software development experience, including requirements definition, specification development, architectural design, coding, and testing.
• 3+ years of experience as a software development team leader or manager.
• Experience working with software vendors.
• Broad perspective and ability to prioritize issues appropriately.
• Native Japanese or Japanese Language Proficiency Test N1-equivalent Japanese.
• English proficiency equivalent to TOEIC 750 or higher.

Nice to have

• Experience coordinating requirements with customers or other teams.
• Knowledge of or experience with Agile development.
• Basic knowledge of or experience with AI applications and model-based development.
• Experience developing or using simulators.
• Experience mentoring junior or mid-career engineers.
• Strong technical communication and presentation skills, including business communication with English speakers.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee position within hirify.global Japan's Engineering department.
• Work in a hybrid arrangement in Tokyo.
• Collaborate with multinational teams, managers, software vendors, other engineering groups, supervisors, and HR.