Staff Robotics Engineer, 3D Sensing (LiDAR)

Location: Hybrid role based in the London, UK or Sunnyvale, US office, combining office and work-from-home time.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous-driving technology and vehicle perception systems.

What you will do

• Define the architecture and technical roadmap for LiDAR and cross-sensor 3D sensing capabilities.
• Develop target-based and targetless LiDAR calibration and registration methods, including LiDAR-to-camera alignment.
• Build temporal alignment and motion compensation methods using LiDAR odometry, nonlinear least-squares optimisation and factor graphs.
• Establish evaluation methodologies, datasets and metrics for 3D sensing quality.
• Productionise reliable, scalable sensing systems across vehicles, environments and sensor configurations.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship while collaborating with engineering and research teams.

Requirements

• Significant experience developing robotics or autonomous-driving systems involving LiDAR, cameras and 3D sensor data.
• Strong experience with sensor calibration and registration, including LiDAR-to-camera alignment.
• Strong understanding of 3D geometry, state estimation and optimisation techniques.
• Experience handling sensor timing and motion effects, including LiDAR sweep distortion, rolling-shutter cameras and motion compensation.
• Strong software-engineering skills in C++ and/or Python, including taking algorithms from prototype through production deployment.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, cross-functional problem-solving and mentoring experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with LiDAR odometry, SLAM, mapping, deskewing or motion compensation.
• Experience with metric-depth foundation models, learned feature correspondences, cross-modal registration or Gaussian splatting.
• Experience handling dynamic scenes with object detection, motion segmentation or tracking.
• Familiarity with GTSAM, Ceres Solver or g2o.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working policy combining time in offices and workshops with time working from home.
• In-person collaboration supports innovation, relationships, culture and learning.

Hiring process

• The CV is used to pre-fill as much of the application form as possible.