Software Engineer (Rust/C++)

Location: San Francisco; in-person work four days per week in the Mission District office

Company

hirify.global builds open-source and production infrastructure for scenario mining and data curation from robot fleet video, lidar, radar, and sensor data.

What you will do

• Build storage and high-throughput data engine capabilities for petabytes of video, lidar, and high-frequency telemetry data.
• Design and improve real-time indexing infrastructure for perception and robotics data.
• Develop multimodal data lake storage using columnar formats such as Apache Parquet and Apache Iceberg.
• Build query systems with partitioning, indexing, query planning, embeddings, vector search, and model-based query predicates.
• Improve streaming computation, memory stability, throughput, and zero-copy data flow.
• Deliver CUDA tensors to GPUs at line rate for model training and inference.

Requirements

• Proven experience building resilient, high-throughput distributed systems or database engines using Rust or C++.
• 3+ years of experience working with engine internals such as vectorized execution, query planning and optimization, distributed task scheduling, or zero-copy networking.
• Practical experience scaling cloud infrastructure, including AWS S3, and managing high-compute data pipelines.
• High agency and adaptability in an autonomous, fast-paced startup environment.
• Ability to work in person in the San Francisco office four days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience with CUDA, GPU streaming, or video decoding frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, experienced engineering team with high ownership and technical autonomy.
• Competitive compensation and startup equity.
• Catered lunches and dinners for San Francisco employees.
• Health, vision, dental, commuter, flexible PTO, and 401(k) benefits with matching.
• Team-building events, poker nights, and the latest Apple equipment.