Autonomy Integration Engineer (R5245)

Location: London, United Kingdom; on-site. Travel to test sites, customer locations, and flight integration events is typically 30–40% of the year.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent autonomy software, unmanned aircraft, and simulation technologies.

What you will do

• Integrate autonomy software onto unmanned aircraft systems across onboard compute, sensors, and control interfaces.
• Build, configure, validate, and prepare flight-ready systems for missions and live demonstrations.
• Support on-site flight operations through safety checks, system bring-up, and time-critical troubleshooting.
• Diagnose integration issues across autonomy software stacks and embedded systems in laboratory and field environments.
• Capture and analyze flight data, collaborate with autonomy, GNC, systems, and test teams, and improve integration tools and processes.
• Support system-level validation, certification, airworthiness, and defense compliance documentation.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 7+ years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 5+ with a master’s degree, or 4+ with a PhD.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python, Linux-based development, shell scripting, embedded systems, and system diagnostics.
• Experience with real-time operating systems, sensor integration, sensor fusion, and middleware such as ROS or DDS.
• Hands-on experience supporting flight demonstrations or live exercises, plus simulation tools for testing and validation.
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with unmanned aerial systems, flight-test campaigns, autonomy stacks, flight controls, or GNC pipelines.
• Experience with electronics debugging, avionics bring-up, or automation tools for testing, logging, and data parsing.
• Experience interfacing with DoD stakeholders and familiarity with UCI and OMS standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work across hardware, software, and systems engineering in laboratory, field, and flight-test environments.
• Collaboration with autonomy, GNC, systems, and test specialists.
• Total rewards package aligned with the country office location.