Senior Autonomy Robotics Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA, United States; occasional local telecommuting is permitted. Travel within the U.S. is required approximately six times per year for flight tests and demonstrations.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous flight applications and integrates them into aircraft ranging from small drones to helicopters.

What you will do

• Design, develop, refine, test, integrate, and deploy autonomous flight algorithms and systems.
• Implement mission execution models, including behavior trees and state machines.
• Develop perception, state estimation, navigation, guidance, and autonomous aerial vehicle control algorithms.
• Integrate lidar, cameras, GPS, and gimbals into flight systems and develop sensor data pipelines.
• Design and optimize multithreaded software in C++ and Python within Linux environments.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines, lead projects through production, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Five years of experience in aerospace, robotics, and/or autonomous flight.
• Experience with robotics perception, state estimation, autonomous aerial vehicle controllers, and flight-system sensor integration.
• Professional programming experience in C++ and Python and development in Linux.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or similar environments, robotics hardware and software, software development life cycle practices, and ROS.
• Ability to travel within the United States approximately six times per year for flight tests and demonstrations.

Culture & Benefits

• Occasional local telecommuting is permitted.
• Work spans autonomous aircraft, robotics hardware, and flight-system testing.
• Technical leadership, project ownership, and engineering mentorship are part of the role.