Senior Robotics Software Engineer (Computer Vision)

Location: Bristol, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global develops robotic systems that use perception, learning, and control software for manipulation and mobile robotics.

What you will do

• Develop perception systems for object detection, segmentation, tracking, pose estimation, depth, scene understanding, and task-state recognition.
• Build vision capabilities for grasping, manipulation, navigation, human awareness, and closed-loop robot behavior.
• Create datasets through collection, annotation, synthetic generation, augmentation, active learning, and failure mining.
• Design offline and on-robot evaluations covering accuracy, calibration, robustness, latency, and downstream task impact.
• Integrate cameras and depth sensors, addressing calibration, synchronization, coordinate transforms, noise, and hardware-specific failures.
• Deploy and optimize perception pipelines for real-time robot inference with logging, monitoring, fallback behavior, and regression coverage.

Requirements

• Practical experience developing computer-vision or multimodal perception systems beyond classroom projects.
• Strong Python skills and substantial experience with PyTorch or an equivalent deep-learning framework.
• Knowledge of modern vision methods including detection, segmentation, tracking, pose estimation, depth, or representation learning.
• Experience building datasets, training models, selecting metrics, and performing structured error analysis.
• Understanding of camera geometry, calibration, coordinate systems, and the connection between perception outputs and physical-world decisions.
• At least three years of relevant work experience and a degree in computer science, machine learning, robotics, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with robotic manipulation, mobile robots, autonomous systems, or embodied AI.
• Knowledge of 6D pose estimation, visual servoing, grasp perception, articulated-object understanding, or hand-object interaction.
• Experience with RGB-D, stereo, event cameras, LiDAR, or multi-camera systems.
• Knowledge of CUDA, TensorRT, ONNX, ROS/ROS 2, or embedded and edge GPU deployment.
• Experience with synthetic data, domain randomization, simulation, sim-to-real transfer, open-vocabulary perception, vision-language models, or multimodal foundation models.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborate with robot-learning, controls, simulation, hardware, and product teams.
• Participate in development and pilot validation activities.
• Occasional travel to partner or pilot sites may be required.
• The role requires periods of sitting, standing, walking, computer work, and lifting up to 30 pounds.