Senior Spacecraft Software Engineer, Ground Systems

Location: On-site in El Segundo, California, United States

Salary: $169,000–$216,000 annually, plus potential stock options.

Company

hirify.global develops commercial space infrastructure, including in-orbit pharmaceutical processing payloads, reentry capsules, heat shields, and satellite buses.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain high-reliability ground segment services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and spacecraft commanding.
• Build operator-grade mission-control interfaces and dashboards for integration, testing, and on-orbit operations.
• Create flight-software simulations, device emulators, scenario-based automated tests, and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks.
• Design and productionize mission-platform tooling, including CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure as code, and observability.
• Develop deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, and mission networks, including safe rollout and rollback strategies for air-gapped or limited-connectivity environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
• 5+ years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
• Strong Python development skills and solid systems fundamentals in concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
• Experience building real-time data acquisition, low-latency messaging, scaling, and distribution services with time-series and relational databases.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, infrastructure as code, logging, metrics, tracing, Docker, Kubernetes, and controlled-network release management.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States and qualify as a U.S. person for access to export-controlled technology.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in C++, Ansible, or NiceGUI.
• Experience with data acquisition, closed-loop control, and lab or test-control environments.
• Experience integrating CI, testing, simulation, or data tools with flight-software teams.
• Knowledge of safety-critical certification artifacts, ground-systems standards, mission-network security, or mission-grade command interfaces.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with flexible paid time off and 12 paid holidays.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, with FSA and employer-matched HSA options.
• Parental, family-building, pregnancy, parenting, menopause, and wellness benefits.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% immediately vested employer match, equity incentive opportunities, and relocation support if needed.
• Daily lunch, twice-weekly dinner, team events, complimentary EV charging, and a $120 monthly wellness reimbursement.