Staff Embedded Software Designer (Aerospace)

Location: Remote within Canada or the United States; Toronto, Ontario office available.

Company

hirify.global develops on-orbit connectivity, optical data relay, and space communication systems for critical missions.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain embedded software for spacecraft and ground-based satellite systems.
• Build Linux networking infrastructure, including routing, control-plane, and dataplane integrations.
• Develop software for FPGA-based platforms, including bring-up, driver integration, and memory-mapped interface optimization.
• Create automated tests, validation tools, and technical documentation.
• Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews while improving reliability and performance.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of embedded software development experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Strong proficiency in C and modern C++.
• Experience with embedded Linux, operating system internals, concurrency, IPC, synchronization, memory management, and hardware/software interfaces.
• Experience with embedded build systems and toolchains such as Yocto/OpenEmbedded, Buildroot, or CMake.
• Ability to debug and optimize complex software in resource-constrained or performance-sensitive environments.

Nice to have

• Experience developing aerospace software.
• Embedded security experience, including secure boot, HSMs, certificate and key management, authentication, or encrypted communications.
• Linux networking, multi-stage bootloader, RTL, Verilog, VHDL, or embedded SoC experience.
• Master’s degree in a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with collaboration across distributed teams and time zones.
• Competitive compensation with an equity plan.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance, including dependent coverage.
• Unlimited vacation, parental leave, and a company-wide holiday shutdown.
• $1,500 annual professional development fund and relocation packages for approved roles.