Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Hybrid in Mountain View, California, with onsite work at the Mountain View HQ office three days per week and flexibility for the remaining days.

Salary: $205,000–$241,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops safe, all-electric, autonomous aircraft and urban air mobility solutions for everyday passenger flight.

What you will do

• Define, architect, and champion software frameworks for complex safety-critical embedded systems used in an autonomous eVTOL aircraft and ground systems.
• Lead technical trade studies and technology maturation activities, evaluating design alternatives for performance, safety, cost, and scalability.
• Ensure compliance with DO-178C, DO-331, and DO-332 throughout planning, requirements, design, coding, and integration.
• Guide the decomposition of system requirements into traceable, verifiable high- and low-level software requirements or design models.
• Collaborate with software, systems engineering, hardware engineering, and safety teams on robust C/C++ embedded code for RTOS-based environments.
• Establish engineering practices, coding standards, tools, architecture principles, and provide technical mentorship to senior and staff engineers.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Electronics, or Electrical Engineering with at least 15 years of substantial safety-critical software development experience, or 10 years with a Master's or PhD.
• Experience designing and developing software architecture for high-integrity, safety-critical embedded systems in aerospace, automotive, rail, or defense.
• Strong practical proficiency in C, C++, Assembly, and embedded software toolchains, with experience using multiple RTOS environments.
• Knowledge of ARINC 653, Integrated Modular Avionics, avionics communication protocols, bootloaders, interrupt handling, microcontrollers, FPGA, memory management, and peripherals.
• Strong understanding of software and hardware relationships, design patterns, architectural patterns, software modeling languages, and data-driven trade studies.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience on multiple aerospace projects governed by DO-178C and its supplements.
• Experience with model-based software design and development techniques.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Flexible vacation time, 11 company holidays, and nine off Fridays for full-time employees during the year.
• 401(k) plan with 50% company matching vested immediately.
• Commuter assistance and education assistance.
• Catered lunches, flight lessons, wellness allowances, charitable giving match, patent bonus program, and other employee perks.