Senior Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer (Space)

Location: On-site in El Segundo, California, United States. Employees must be authorized to work in the U.S. and qualify as a U.S. person for access to export-controlled technology.

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 telemetry ingestion, distribution, scaling, and commanding services.
• 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 test harnesses.
• Design and productionize CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tooling.
• Build deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, and mission networks, including safe rollouts, rollbacks, and 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 systems fundamentals in concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
• Experience building real-time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services using low-latency messaging and time-series or relational stores.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, infrastructure-as-code, logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, release management, phased rollouts, and operational readiness for controlled networks.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in C++, Ansible, or NiceGUI.
• Experience with DAQ, closed-loop control, flight-software integration, simulation, or data tools.
• Experience with safety-critical requirements, testing, certification artifacts, ground systems standards, or mission-network security.
• Experience building mission-grade interfaces with structured command workflows, alarming, and situational awareness.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with flexible PTO and 12 paid holidays.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, with FSA and employer-matched HSA options.
• Parental leave, family-building support, wellness reimbursement, and One Medical memberships.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% immediately vested employer match and incentive equity.
• Relocation support may be available for new hires, with meals, team events, and EV charging provided on-site.