Mission Software Engineer (Space)

Location: On-site in El Segundo, California, United States

Salary: $131,000–$184,000 annually, plus potential stock options.

Company

hirify.global develops commercial space infrastructure, including in-orbit pharmaceutical processing payloads, reentry capsules, heat shields, and satellite buses.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain high-reliability services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and spacecraft commanding.
• Build operator-grade mission-control interfaces and dashboards for integration, testing, and on-orbit operations.
• Create flight-software simulations, device emulators, and scenario-based automated tests for avionics, GNC, and mission operations.
• Design and productionize CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure-as-code, test harnesses, and observability tooling.
• Develop deployment patterns and safe rollout and rollback strategies for lab benches, test stands, mission networks, and limited-connectivity environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
• At least 3 years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
• Strong Python development skills and fundamentals in concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
• Experience building real-time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services using low-latency messaging and time-series or relational databases.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, infrastructure-as-code, logging, metrics, tracing, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Must be lawfully authorized to work in the United States and qualify as a U.S. person for access to export-controlled technology.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in C++, Ansible, and/or NiceGUI.
• Experience with data acquisition, closed-loop control, flight-software integration, simulation, or testing tools.
• Experience with safety-critical requirements, test, certification artifacts, ground-systems standards, or mission-network security.
• Experience building mission-grade interfaces with structured command workflows, alarming, and situational awareness.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with flexible PTO and 12 paid holidays.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance with FSA and employer-matched HSA options.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% immediately vested employer match and incentive equity.
• Relocation support may be available for new hires.
• Daily lunch, twice-weekly dinner, wellness reimbursement, parental and family-building benefits, and EV charging.