Staff Simulation Architect - Core Simulation Platform (Robotics)

Location: Austin, Texas, United States

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered humanoid robots, including Apollo, for manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, home, and other applications.

What you will do

• Own the architecture of the core simulation platform supporting policy training, controls validation, and CI/CD integration testing.
• Design cloud-native pipelines that generate millions of experience hours per day and scale compute-heavy workloads through distributed parallelization.
• Define core abstractions and APIs for adding new physics, sensor, and rendering capabilities.
• Set technical direction for performance, reliability, and scalability while resolving bottlenecks in high-throughput distributed systems.
• Define the platform roadmap, review major design proposals, and reduce iteration time for reinforcement learning, controls, and perception teams.
• Establish architecture standards, mentor senior engineers, and collaborate with Controls, AI Research, and Perception leadership.

Requirements

• Excellent C++ and/or Python programming skills applied to large-scale system architecture.
• Deep experience architecting distributed, high-throughput, or real-time software systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and distributed computing frameworks such as Ray or Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, automated testing, and software quality standards.
• Experience making and communicating architectural trade-offs involving performance, flexibility, latency, and throughput.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, plus 7+ years of software engineering experience including architecture or technical leadership.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of robotics concepts such as kinematics, dynamics, controls, or system identification.
• Experience with Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, or equivalent robotic simulators.
• Research or production experience with reinforcement learning.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct-hire position within a human-centered robotics company.
• Work on AI-powered humanoid robots and a simulation platform used across robotics, controls, AI research, and perception.
• Regular desk and computer work is required, with occasional lifting of up to 15 pounds.