Autonomy & Active Safety Engineering Intern (Robotics)

Location: Onsite in hirify.global, Wisconsin or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Salary: $18.00–$37.00 per hour

Company

hirify.global designs and manufactures specialty trucks and access equipment for mission-critical applications, including defense, firefighting, and community infrastructure.

What you will do

• Own a technical project involving autonomy, active safety, robotics, perception, embedded controls, or vehicle systems.
• Develop, integrate, test, and demonstrate capabilities on real vehicles, test benches, or simulation environments.
• Build and evaluate computer vision and machine learning features such as object detection, tracking, and vision-language models.
• Integrate cameras, LiDAR, radar, GPS/IMU, and high-performance edge-computing platforms.
• Develop and test software and embedded vehicle-control systems using Python, C/C++, MATLAB/Simulink, and related tools.
• Collaborate across software, systems, controls, electrical, mechanical, and hardware disciplines while analyzing, troubleshooting, and presenting results.

Requirements

• Pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
• Undergraduate applicants must have at least sophomore standing at the time of application.
• Programming experience with Python, C/C++, or a similar language through coursework, research, projects, or work experience.
• Ability to work for at least 12 weeks from late May or early June through August.

Nice to have

• Experience or interest in autonomy, robotics, active safety, computer vision, machine learning, or perception.
• ROS2, Linux-based robotics, embedded software, microcontrollers, MATLAB/Simulink, or CAN vehicle networks.
• Vehicle powertrain, braking, steering, control systems, sensor integration, or simulation experience.
• Hands-on experimentation with real systems and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on engineering experience with meaningful technical projects.
• Mentorship, training, and opportunities to connect with engineering professionals across the organization.
• Exposure to hirify.global products, customers, technologies, values, and engineering processes.
• Work on next-generation autonomy and active safety technologies for highly automated, mission-critical vehicles.