OS Platform Engineer (Spacecraft)

Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

Salary: $160,000–$200,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops high-power satellite platforms for commercial and U.S. government missions ranging from low Earth orbit to deep space.

What you will do

• Architect real-time, fault-tolerant software for spacecraft control systems exceeding 20 kW.
• Maintain custom real-time Linux distributions for internally developed flight computers.
• Customize U-Boot to implement secure boot, authenticity validation, and robust rollback capabilities.
• Curate device trees and enable hardware-specific features across multiple boards.
• Build deployment, development, testing, and reliability infrastructure for high-quality software delivery.
• Analyze data and anomalies, resolve software defects, and support spacecraft subsystem integration and testing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, or another STEM discipline, or 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Development experience with Rust, C, C++, Python, VHDL, or SystemVerilog.
• Must be a U.S. person under ITAR or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export-control license.

Nice to have

• Linux systems programming, driver development, and embedded Linux image creation with Buildroot, BitBake, or Yocto.
• Hard real-time embedded systems experience, including bare-metal or real-time Linux.
• Experience with Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588 PTP) and spacecraft flight software.
• Continuous integration and delivery, software verification, testing, performance analysis, and debugging.
• Fault-tolerant software design and hardware-in-the-loop or hardware-out-of-the-loop test systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced environment at a high-growth, Series D-funded aerospace company.
• Opportunity to develop software deployed across multiple spacecraft and demanding missions.
• Paid time off, medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life insurance, paid parental leave, and additional benefits.
• Company equity included in compensation.