Sensing Systems Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, USA; hybrid work with in-person collaboration in offices, workshops, labs, and vehicle environments.

Salary: Senior $209,700–$266,800; Staff $276,100–$311,400.

Company

hirify.global builds an AI platform for autonomous driving, combining machine learning, robotics, vehicle software, simulation, and data systems to support scalable vehicle autonomy from L2+ through L4.

What you will do

• Define sensing-system requirements, metrics, acceptance criteria, and validation gates for new and existing vehicle platforms.
• Translate driving behaviours and product use cases into measurable sensor needs and challenging validation scenarios.
• Design experiments with hardware, ML, and validation teams and analyse the resulting data.
• Assess how sensor characteristics, placement, calibration, synchronization, and defects affect model inputs and driving behaviour.
• Make and document trade-offs across performance, cost, compute, packaging, reliability, and schedule.
• Drive cross-functional technical decisions across robotics, hardware, vehicle software, ML, validation, and product.

Requirements

• Deep technical knowledge of at least one sensing modality used in robotics or autonomous vehicles.
• Strong systems-engineering fundamentals, including requirements definition, verification, and validation.
• Experience designing experiments and using data analysis to make technical decisions.
• Understanding of how sensing limitations and failure modes propagate through robotic or ML systems.
• Ability to work effectively across hardware, software, ML, validation, and product teams.
• Broad familiarity with calibration, synchronization, sensor fusion, perception, or automotive integration is beneficial; deep ML implementation experience is not required.

Nice to have

• Experience with cameras, lidar, radar, localization, calibration, synchronization, sensor-data quality, or automotive sensing architectures.
• Experience evaluating sensor impact on end-to-end driving performance and OEM or customer sensing configurations.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with hands-on access to vehicles, workshops, and labs.
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.
• Market-benchmarked salaries, meaningful equity, and location-dependent health, family, retirement, and wellbeing benefits.
• Learning and development support.
• Opportunity to shape processes and ways of working in a developing organisation.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screen lasting 25 minutes.
• Initial technical screen covering experience, systems thinking, and cross-functional leadership, followed by deep dives into sensor fundamentals, ML–sensor interfaces, architecture, systems engineering, and technical leadership.
• Final interview covering values and mission alignment.