Senior Flight Software Engineer II

Location: Westminster, Colorado, United States; on-site. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, conditional residents, asylees, refugees, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Salary: $133,000–$161,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms.

What you will do

• Design and implement mission systems spanning satellites, ground stations, and mission operations centers.
• Develop, test, debug, document, and validate system and flight software.
• Monitor, test, and control spacecraft subsystems including attitude, command and data handling, navigation, thermal, and power.
• Define software architecture, requirements, block diagrams, implementation plans, and verification activities.
• Review code and system designs, analyze efficiency and stability, and optimize I/O performance.
• Interface with hardware engineers, assess third-party and open-source software, and provide post-production and in-orbit support.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in Software or Computer Engineering.
• At least 5 years of industry experience in spacecraft software development; a master’s degree may count as two years of experience.
• Hands-on experience developing and troubleshooting software and hardware systems in an aerospace context using C, C++, Python, or other languages.
• Experience with embedded software, spacecraft mission design, attitude dynamics, coordinate transformations, communication systems, propulsion, thermal, and power systems.
• Experience with TCP/IP or UDP, software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop development, configuration management, release processes, defect tracking, peer review, and continuous integration, testing, and delivery.
• Strong understanding of multithreaded applications, resource management, reliability, redundancy, fault detection, identification, and recovery.

Nice to have

• CubeSat or SmallSat experience across LEO, MEO, GEO, or deep-space missions.
• Experience with spacecraft instrumentation, subsystems, and test laboratories.
• Experience with JPL F’, NASA cFS, or other commercial space software frameworks.
• Ground system software engineering, space software team leadership, safety-critical software, or network security experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, autonomous work in a dynamic and cross-functional startup environment.
• Collaboration with senior and principal software engineers and opportunities to mentor spacecraft engineers.
• Full-time employment with company stock options.
• Health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement benefits.