Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer (Imaging Systems)

Location: On-site in Denver, Colorado, at the Denver headquarters; must be a US citizen or permanent resident, able to obtain and maintain a US security clearance, and located near Denver or willing to relocate. Travel is expected for field events, exercises, and customer engagements.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed aerospace startup that designs, builds, operates, and sells stratospheric balloon systems for applications including wildfire monitoring, urban mapping, and government missions.

What you will do

• Own embedded firmware for electro-optical and infrared payloads, including sensor bring-up, drivers, edge compute, and board-support packages.
• Integrate cameras and sensors over PCIe, MIPI/CSI, and USB on NVIDIA Jetson and custom embedded platforms.
• Develop CUDA-based image processing for debayering, calibration, correction, IR processing, and computational imaging.
• Implement imagery metadata, high-throughput data paths, routing, telemetry, and command-and-control links.
• Integrate payload firmware with gimbal and motion-control systems and optimize latency, throughput, and determinism.
• Develop optical calibration, image-quality characterization, frame registration, stabilization, and temporal filtering for moving platforms.

Requirements

• 5+ years of embedded firmware development in C/C++ for embedded Linux, bare-metal, or RTOS systems.
• Hands-on experience shipping products on NVIDIA Jetson or comparable embedded Linux/SoC platforms.
• Deep experience with high-rate PCIe data movement, including drivers, DMA, and endpoint or root-complex operation.
• Experience building end-to-end camera or imaging systems and working with CUDA or GPU-accelerated image processing.
• Strong networking, data-routing, command-and-control, hardware-debugging, and schematic-reading skills.
• US citizenship or permanent residency, eligibility for a US security clearance, and ability to work on-site near Denver are required.

Nice to have

• IR or thermal imaging, NUC, radiometric calibration, and computational imaging experience.
• GStreamer, V4L2, FPGA workflows, high-speed serial interfaces, or optical hardware experience.
• Defense imagery standards such as MISB/KLV or STANAG and mission-critical development experience.
• RF, SATCOM, tactical radio, multisensor fusion, or multispectral imaging experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, supportive team culture centered on candor, inclusion, respect, and empowerment.
• Stock options.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Flexible PTO.
• Cell phone bill stipend.