Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Integration Lead

Location: San Diego, California, United States; Workplace: On-site

Company

hirify.global develops AI and autonomy software for edge systems operating in complex and dynamic mission environments.

What you will do

• Build and maintain stable integrated autonomy implementations, reference configurations, reusable test fixtures, and end-to-end examples.
• Partner with component teams to maintain integration baselines and resolve workflow, test harness, and extensibility gaps.
• Develop automated software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop tests across autonomy components.
• Maintain the integration layer between mission autonomy software and platform software for deployment.
• Investigate cross-system failures, reproduce and instrument issues, isolate responsible layers, and coordinate defect resolution.
• Support deployment to representative hardware, including configuration, telemetry, interface troubleshooting, and lab or field debugging.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, or equivalent practical experience.
• Professional, research, internship, or substantial project experience building, testing, and debugging nontrivial C++ software for perception, planning, robotics, or autonomous systems.
• Experience with modern C++, concurrency patterns, data races, deadlocks, and lifetime errors.
• Working experience with Python and practical experience developing and debugging software on Linux.
• Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, testing, debugging, and maintainable software design.
• Experience with build and dependency management systems such as Conan or Nix.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in AI, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
• Breadth across perception, localization, and planning, including multi-agent autonomy.
• Experience applying VLMs or VLAs to planning, reasoning, tool use, or autonomous decision-making.
• Experience delivering fielded, real-time, safety-critical, or resource-constrained autonomous systems.
• Experience with simulation, performance profiling, or distributed systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, and real-time autonomous systems.
• Collaborate with component and Flight Operations teams on integrated mission capabilities.
• Contribute to reference integrations, deployment workflows, documentation, runbooks, and Pilot training materials.