Senior Autonomy Integration Engineer

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid workplace with approximately 30–40% travel to office locations, customer sites, and flight integration events

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense technology company developing intelligent autonomy systems, 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 systems for flight and mission deployment.
• Support live flight operations with safety checks, system bring-up, troubleshooting, and time-critical issue resolution.
• Capture and analyze flight data to refine autonomous behaviors and identify system improvements.
• Collaborate with autonomy, GNC, systems, and test teams on mission-critical functionality and validation.
• Develop tools and processes for integration, system testing, logging, data parsing, certification, and compliance.

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+ years with a master’s degree, or 4+ years with a PhD.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python, Linux-based development, shell scripting, system diagnostics, embedded systems, and real-time operating systems.
• Knowledge of sensor integration, sensor fusion, and middleware frameworks such as ROS and DDS.
• Hands-on experience supporting flight demonstrations or live exercises, plus experience with simulation tools for testing and validation.
• Strong troubleshooting, system optimization, communication, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work connecting research and development with real-world deployment.
• Collaboration across autonomy, GNC, systems, and flight test disciplines.
• Total rewards package aligned with the employee’s country office location.
• Work includes lab, field, and live flight-test environments.