Senior/Principal Mission Software Engineer (C++)

Location: On-site in Atlanta, Georgia or Los Angeles, California. U.S. citizenship is required; U.S. permanent residents are not eligible.

Company

hirify.global develops aircraft and ground systems supported by mission management, autonomy, avionics, and communications software.

What you will do

• Own major Mission Management System capabilities from architecture through integration, testing, and operational use.
• Design and develop high-performance C++ software for command and control, telemetry, mission workflows, and subsystem coordination.
• Define scalable architectures, interfaces, APIs, protocols, and message schemas.
• Integrate autonomy services, sensors, payloads, radios, tactical datalinks, and third-party systems.
• Build simulation, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and system-integration environments.
• Lead design and code reviews, technical trade studies, integration activities, mentoring, and real-time troubleshooting during ground and flight tests.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of professional software-development experience for Senior-level consideration, or 10+ years of relevant experience or equivalent technical leadership for Principal-level consideration.
• Advanced proficiency with modern C++, including C++17 or newer.
• Experience with complex production software, concurrency, memory management, software architecture, and performance-oriented development.
• Experience with distributed, real-time, embedded, robotic, aerospace, or other hardware-connected systems, including TCP, UDP, multicast, and socket-level network programming.
• Strong debugging, systems-integration, technical communication, and end-to-end ownership skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with mission systems, command-and-control software, mission planning, ground-control systems, autonomy platforms, or operator-facing applications.
• Aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous vehicle, or spacecraft experience.
• Experience with RF communications, SATCOM, line-of-sight radios, tactical datalinks, publish/subscribe architectures, or middleware such as DDS, ZeroMQ, ActiveMQ, or Kafka.
• Knowledge of avionics architectures, aircraft networks, telemetry, flight testing, simulation, SIL, HIL, DO-178C, ARINC, FACE, OMS/UCI, STANAG, or MIL-STD standards.
• Experience establishing technical direction across multiple teams or working in a startup or rapid-prototyping environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on technical leadership with influence over foundational software architecture and mission capabilities.
• Collaboration across software, avionics, communications, autonomy, simulation, systems, networking, and flight operations.
• Competitive pay, equity, stock options, and potential year-end bonuses.
• 100% employer-paid healthcare, pet insurance, paid parental leave, and a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Paid federal holidays, unlimited PTO for exempt employees, and accrued PTO for non-exempt employees.
• Weekly paid office lunches and stocked breakrooms.