Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Linux (C/C++)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Salary: $154,000–$230,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops aerospace technology and the Terran R launch vehicle for delivering customer payloads to orbit.

What you will do

• Develop, test, and document firmware deployed across rocket avionics boxes.
• Build production-grade embedded Linux applications and system services for network switch and camera platforms.
• Integrate networking, video, hardware interfaces, peripherals, and embedded SoC pipelines.
• Lead system bring-up and platform integration for new hardware.
• Debug issues across hardware, kernels, drivers, and application layers.
• Participate in validation, performance tuning, testing, and troubleshooting in laboratory and field environments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing software for embedded systems.
• Strong programming skills in C/C++.
• Experience developing applications on embedded Linux platforms.
• Experience with debugging tools such as gdb, strace, perf, and tcpdump.
• Familiarity with Linux networking, system programming, cross-compiled systems, and build systems.
• Strong debugging skills across hardware and software boundaries.

Nice to have

• Experience with camera pipelines, video processing, or multimedia frameworks.
• Experience with network switching, routing, or networking protocols.
• Low-level embedded development experience with MCUs, RTOS, or bare-metal systems.
• Experience with hardware bring-up, board support packages, Yocto, Linux device drivers, CI/CD, or automated embedded testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Paid time off and sick leave.
• Parental leave.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Opportunity to work on safety-critical software for rocket vehicles and see code deployed on rocket engines.