Software Engineer, Platform (Robotics)

Location: Atlanta, GA, USA

Company

hirify.global is a Series A robotics company developing autonomous ground-handling solutions for airlines and ground service providers.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain custom Ubuntu/Linux distributions for real-time, safety-critical autonomous vehicle workloads.
• Optimize ROS 2 DDS middleware for low-latency, high-throughput multi-sensor data flows.
• Develop and maintain kernel modules and user-space drivers for LiDARs, cameras, radars, GNSS/INS, CAN, and other vehicle interfaces.
• Build observability, logging, networking, security, secure boot, and OTA update capabilities for lab and field deployments.
• Own CI/CD pipelines for OS images and driver packages, automating build, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborate with autonomy, perception, and controls engineers to profile system resources, remove bottlenecks, support field trials, and document platform practices.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience developing or maintaining Linux-based embedded or robotics platforms.
• Deep knowledge of Ubuntu/Linux, package management, systemd, networking, and kernel configuration.
• Proficiency in C/C++ and Python, including kernel module and user-space driver development or debugging.
• Production or research experience with ROS 1 or ROS 2.
• Familiarity with USB, Ethernet, CAN, PCIe, SPI, and I2C, plus real-time performance tuning, profiling, and resource-constrained optimization.
• Experience with Git, Docker/OCI containers, and automated build systems such as Yocto or Buildroot.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, drones, or other safety-critical robotic systems.
• Experience with ptp4l, v4l2/gstreamer, Nvidia Orin/Jetson, PREEMPT_RT, DDS internals, or QoS tuning.
• Knowledge of CUDA, Vulkan, heterogeneous compute scheduling, functional safety tools, MISRA, or ISO 26262 workflows.
• Experience supporting field deployments at airports or industrial sites.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on autonomous ground vehicles used by airlines and ground service providers.
• Collaborate across autonomy, perception, controls, and platform engineering disciplines.
• Support both laboratory development and real-world field trials and customer pilots.
• Contribute to a fast-paced Series A startup environment.