Staff/Principal Flight Software Engineer (IV/V) (C++)

Location: Irvine, California; preferred onsite, with hybrid or remote work possible after onboarding. U.S. citizenship and eligibility for required U.S. export authorizations and DoD security clearance are required.

Salary: $150,000–$210,000 USD annually, depending on level and qualifications.

Company

hirify.global manufactures satellite products and provides end-to-end satellite solutions for aerospace, defense, civil, and commercial missions.

What you will do

• Establish software requirements in collaboration with multiple engineering teams.
• Serve as the technical lead for a satellite program and communicate with customers in technical working groups.
• Lead, mentor, and assign tasks to junior software engineers.
• Design, develop, and maintain reliable, fault-tolerant C++ flight software for nanosatellite vehicles and payloads.
• Create unit and regression tests and integrate software across simulation, flight replica, flight vehicle, and hardware-in-the-loop environments.
• Travel approximately 10% to customers or vendors for design reviews and collaborative technical work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
• 8+ years of experience developing C++ applications for embedded, high-performance, or critical systems at Staff Engineer level, or 12+ years at Principal Engineer level.
• Experience with GitHub or a similar Git tool.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, autonomy, thoroughness, and accountability.
• U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.
• Eligibility for U.S. space-technology export authorizations is required.

Nice to have

• Linux kernel development, low-level driver subsystems, UART or serial communication drivers, and kernel-space debugging.
• Experience with ARM and Texas Instruments embedded platforms, hardware abstraction layers, and evolving hardware/firmware platforms.
• Test equipment experience, including oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers.
• Linux and GNU tools such as make, GCC, and GDB, plus Bash and Python scripting.
• Build pipelines, on-target deployment and testing, and serial communications including CAN, RS-422/485, I2C, SPI, PCI, and SpaceWire.

Culture & Benefits

• Professional office and manufacturing environment with access to satellite hardware.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) matching and flexible time off.
• Education reimbursement and paid parental leave.
• Company-paid life insurance and employee referral benefits.