Robotics Software Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Hybrid role based in London, UK or Sunnyvale, US

Salary: $276,100–$293,750 per year

Company

hirify.global is building an AI platform for autonomous driving that enables vehicles to learn from real-world experience and adapt across complex urban environments.

What you will do

• Extend the online calibration node and deliver reliable production software for the on-vehicle runtime.
• Adapt and integrate calibration and state-estimation algorithms for continuous or on-demand onboard execution.
• Handle asynchronous sensor data, accelerator-produced features, and noisy, time-varying calibration parameters.
• Strengthen validation, gating, persistence, logging, runtime interfaces, and fleet-level observability.
• Profile and optimise compute, memory, storage, and latency while preserving correctness and debuggability.
• Build simulation, replay, bench, and on-vehicle tests covering nominal and failure scenarios.

Requirements

• Practical expertise in sensor calibration, state estimation, or a related robotics domain, including cameras, LiDAR, IMUs, vehicle parameters, or multi-sensor systems.
• Strong understanding of Kalman-family filters, Bayesian estimation, smoothing, robust estimation, or factor-graph optimisation.
• Strong modern C++ skills and proficiency in Python for prototyping, analysis, and test tooling.
• Experience productionising algorithm-heavy robotics software for vehicles, robots, drones, aerospace systems, or comparable edge platforms.
• Experience with asynchronous, high-throughput sensor data and hardware-accelerated pipelines, including optimisation of constrained compute and memory systems.
• Strong software architecture, API design, testing, debugging, performance profiling, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with visual odometry, SLAM, localisation, sensor fusion, ego-motion estimation, or geometric computer vision.
• Experience with GPU, DSP, NPU, or other hardware-accelerated robotics workloads.
• Production software experience at scale in robotics or autonomous-systems companies.
• Experience with embedded Linux, edge-state management, rollback, automotive safety, or fault-injection testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with in-person collaboration in offices and workshops, remote work, and core hours.
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.
• Meaningful equity and market-benchmarked salaries.
• Learning and development budgets for training, conferences, and professional growth.
• Health, dental, retirement or pension benefits, enhanced parental leave, therapy access, wellbeing partnerships, and team socials.

Hiring process

• Initial recruiter screen followed by a competency interview.
• Deep-dive technical interviews covering C++/Python programming, sensor calibration, robotics system design, and technical leadership.
• Final interview focused on values and team alignment.