Senior Staff AI Software Engineer, Perception (Robotics)

Location: Remote within the United States, with hybrid options for candidates within commuting distance of offices in Fremont, California; Salem, Oregon; or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Current U.S. work authorization is required.

Salary: $238,000–$372,000 USD annual base salary.

Company

hirify.global develops Digit, a commercially deployed humanoid robot for warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers.

What you will do

• Own the technical vision and system architecture for Digit’s perception capabilities in open, dynamic environments.
• Define how the robot perceives and reasons about people and hazards while balancing safety, latency, robustness, sensing, redundancy, and compute constraints.
• Stay hands-on by prototyping, validating, and building critical perception components.
• Partner with functional safety and systems engineering on safety-case strategy, hazard analysis, and failure-mode analysis.
• Set verification and validation standards for ML-based perception, especially for rare and safety-critical scenarios.
• Collaborate with navigation, controls, and hardware teams while mentoring engineers and representing architecture to leadership, partners, and customers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in machine learning or perception for robotics, including defining system architecture.
• Master’s or Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience architecting ML or perception systems for safety-critical or safety-rated contexts, such as human detection, functional safety, automotive, or robotics.
• Deep expertise in deep convolutional neural networks, multi-object tracking, data association, supervised learning, and pose estimation.
• Experience making system-level tradeoffs across sensing modalities, redundancy, and compute constraints on embedded, real-time hardware.
• Track record of setting technical direction at the organizational level.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting a safety case or certification submission.
• Experience with redundant or diverse sensing systems for safety-rated perception.
• Experience with humanoid or legged robots, FMEA, hazard analysis, and safety-case strategy.
• Experience presenting technical architecture to regulators, third-party certifiers, or safety auditors.
• Publications in venues such as CVPR, ICCV, RSS, or ICRA.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements with remote and hybrid options.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% company match and company stock options.
• Company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short- and long-term disability insurance from the first day of employment.
• Paid parental leave, professional development, tuition reimbursement, and an employee assistance program.
• Paid time off, company holidays, and a winter shutdown; eligible roles may also include relocation assistance and an annual discretionary bonus.
• Catered lunches and snacks are available at the Salem and Pittsburgh locations.