Senior Software Systems Engineer (Autonomous Systems)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States

Salary: $153,200–$234,100 per year, plus bonus potential.

Company

hirify.global develops automotive products and autonomous vehicle technologies with a focus on safer, more equitable transportation.

What you will do

• Develop scalable frameworks for measuring validation confidence across simulation and real-world testing.
• Build tools and data pipelines for test execution, analysis, metric computation, scorecards, and confidence reporting.
• Evaluate simulation validity and road predictive power using measurable criteria.
• Analyze test and vehicle data to identify uncertainty, pipeline issues, regressions, and evidence gaps.
• Translate validation and release questions into requirements, experiments, test suites, metrics, and quantitative decision criteria.
• Partner with simulation, safety, autonomy, and release teams to communicate conclusions and recommendations.

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in Python, C++, or a comparable language, with experience writing clear, testable, maintainable code.
• Experience applying engineering or quantitative methods to physical, cyber-physical, or real-world systems.
• Ability to convert ambiguous validation questions into measurable requirements, metrics, experiments, or decision criteria.
• Ability to investigate complex behavior using incomplete or noisy data and explain technical results across disciplines.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, data science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, simulation, aerospace, industrial automation, or other safety-relevant engineered systems.
• Experience with verification and validation, test automation, scenario generation, requirements-based testing, or performance benchmarking.
• Knowledge of probability, statistics, experimental design, data analysis, SQL, scientific computing, or large-scale test execution.
• Graduate degree or equivalent depth in a related technical field.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Account options.
• Retirement savings plan, life insurance, sickness and accident benefits, and paid vacation and holidays.
• Tuition assistance, employee assistance program, and GM vehicle discounts.
• Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.

Hiring process

• Role-related assessments and pre-employment screening may be required where applicable.