Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Platform (Robotics)

Location: San Jose, CA, United States

Company

hirify.global develops vision-based autonomy, connected robotics platforms, and modular vehicles for demanding agricultural and off-road operations.

What you will do

• Own OTA updates across the robot fleet, including image builds and signing, staged rollouts, rollback, recovery, and delivery to Linux modules and CAN-connected controllers.
• Build fleet management infrastructure for device identity, provisioning, configuration, secrets, remote access, and software-version tracking.
• Develop observability for intermittently connected edge devices, including telemetry, metrics, logs, health signals, dashboards, and alerting.
• Maintain Yocto-based operating system images, BSPs, kernels, device trees, system services, boot and recovery paths, and reproducible builds.
• Design CI/CD, cross-compilation, artifact management, and release infrastructure for ARM64 embedded targets.
• Partner with firmware, autonomy, and field operations teams while bringing up hardware and supporting field deployments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience in embedded Linux, infrastructure, or robotics platform engineering.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong proficiency in Rust, C/C++, and Python.
• Experience with Linux systems programming, including networking, IPC, process management, systemd, and device drivers.
• Experience with Yocto/OpenEmbedded, Buildroot, or custom BSPs, including kernel and device tree development.
• Experience with OTA systems, fleet device management, observability, AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and ARM64 cross-compilation.

Nice to have

• Embedded firmware, bare-metal or RTOS development, hardware bring-up, and CAN bus systems such as J1939 and UDS/ISO-TP.
• Experience with NVIDIA Jetson/Orin, L4T, secure boot, image signing, and key management.
• Knowledge of ROS/ROS2, Zenoh, agricultural or off-road robotics, functional safety, and low-bandwidth fleet deployments.
• Experience with data infrastructure, time-series storage, log pipelines, developer tooling, and reproducible embedded development environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid flexibility may be available for selective roles, with time split between the office and home.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, mental health support, and wellness programs.
• Covered lunch on in-office days.
• Collaborative, cross-functional work focused on robotics innovation and field impact.
• Support for work-life balance and employee well-being.