Software Engineer (Embedded)

Location: Culver City, California, United States; onsite. Relocation assistance to Los Angeles is available.

Company

hirify.global is a seed-stage aerospace company building a space-based, point-to-point data transport network using free-space laser links in Medium Earth Orbit.

What you will do

• Own the flight and embedded software stack, from board-level drivers and bring-up through payload commanding, telemetry, and fault management.
• Develop C/C++ firmware for terminal and payload electronics across bare-metal and RTOS environments.
• Build the payload application layer, including commanding, telemetry, fault detection, diagnostics, and bus interfaces.
• Implement real-time control loops based on designs from GNC and Lasercom engineers.
• Support hardware bring-up and develop low-level I2C, SPI, UART, ADC, and Ethernet drivers.
• Establish build systems, CI, hardware-in-the-loop testing, observability, safing behavior, and software update mechanisms.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong embedded development experience in C or C++, including bare-metal and RTOS environments.
• Hands-on hardware bring-up and cross-domain debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG.
• Experience with low-level peripherals and drivers, including I2C, SPI, UART, ADC, and Ethernet.
• Python experience for tooling, test automation, and data analysis.
• Onsite work in Culver City, California is required.

Nice to have

• Flight software frameworks or protocols such as cFS, F Prime, or CCSDS.
• Real-time control loops, FPGA SoC platforms such as Zynq, and gateware-to-software interfaces.
• Fault management, FDIR, hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure, telemetry pipelines, or ground-interface protocols.
• Reliability-aware software experience in radiation-tolerant or safety-critical environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Seed-stage environment with direct ownership of software running on new boards and flight hardware.
• Employee stock options are included in compensation offers for full-time employees.
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance with significant company coverage for employees and dependents.
• Paid parental leave, flexible PTO, three weeks of accrued vacation, and ten company holidays annually.
• Equipment and laboratory budget, plus relocation assistance to Los Angeles.