Senior Platform Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Torrance, California, United States

Salary: $163,500–$228,500 USD annually in base salary, plus potential equity grants.

Company

hirify.global is a defense technology company designing and manufacturing high-performance unmanned systems for modern battlefield applications.

What you will do

• Build and maintain the autonomy runtime and middleware integration layer, including module interfaces, process and thread structures, message passing, and execution rates.
• Own real-time scheduling, latency accounting, deadline monitoring, and sensor-to-actuator latency measurement on target hardware.
• Design high-rate on-vehicle logging with ring buffers, triggered capture, multi-sensor and video streams, storage and bandwidth budgeting, and log integrity verification.
• Implement hardware timestamping and time synchronization across sensors, mission compute, and flight controllers to support deterministic replay.
• Support hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure and on-site flight testing, resolving timing, logging, sensor, and platform integration defects.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience developing production embedded, robotics, or real-time software deployed outside laboratory environments.
• Experience delivering software onto physical vehicles or embedded platforms through bring-up, integration, and field operation.
• Expert proficiency in modern C++ on embedded Linux and working proficiency in Python for tooling, analysis, and automation.
• Hands-on experience with robotics or vehicle runtime and middleware layers, including IPC, message passing, module interfaces, process and thread structures, and scheduling using ROS 2, DDS, Zenoh, LCM, or an equivalent.
• Deep knowledge of real-time scheduling, CPU affinity and isolation, lock-free or zero-copy data paths, jitter, deadline analysis, and latency measurement on target hardware.
• Experience with high-rate vehicle logging, time synchronization and hardware timestamping, camera and inertial sensor drivers, and interfaces such as MIPI CSI-2, GMSL, USB3 Vision, GigE Vision, SPI, or I2C.

Nice to have

• Unmanned aircraft experience with PX4, ArduPilot, MAVLink, flight controllers, arming logic, flight modes, and failsafe behavior.
• Experience with thermal or other non-visible imaging payloads and their drivers, calibration, and data handling.
• Experience designing hardware-in-the-loop benches and integrating them into automated release gating.
• Experience supporting deterministic log replay, log schema design, data provenance and versioning, and reconciliation with offline ground truth such as RTK GNSS post-processing.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, hands-on engineering culture focused on moving systems from design to deployment.
• Work on unmanned systems tested in combat and produced at scale.
• Highly competitive equity grants are included as part of total compensation.
• Equal opportunity employment is provided without regard to protected characteristics.