Software Engineer (Autonomous Driving)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, USA; hybrid working model with in-person work in offices, workshops, and labs

Salary: $200K–$250K

Company

hirify.global builds an AI platform for autonomous driving that learns from real-world experience and integrates with global automotive OEM partners.

What you will do

• Support software bring-up on benches, hardware-in-the-loop systems, and vehicles, including at international test locations.
• Develop and maintain vehicle-facing software components, shared frameworks, diagnostics, tooling, and performance metrics.
• Diagnose integration issues across software and hardware boundaries using logs, telemetry, on-target tests, and systematic experimentation.
• Improve architectures and reusable abstractions to reduce bespoke work across vehicle programs.
• Create documentation and runbooks for long-term system supportability.
• Collaborate with hardware, safety, controls, calibration, and reliability teams.

Requirements

• Strong software-development experience in C++, Python, or Rust.
• Production-quality software experience on Linux-based robotic, embedded, or automotive platforms.
• Understanding of ROS2 or similar robotics middleware and distributed-system integration.
• Hands-on experience integrating software with vehicle or embedded hardware.
• Understanding of vehicle sensors, networking, and platform bring-up, including CAN or Automotive Ethernet.

Nice to have

• Experience with drive-by-wire systems, CAN tools, shared frameworks, HiL or simulation, functional safety, technical documentation, or observability.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work combining in-person collaboration with focused remote work.
• Hands-on access to vehicle workshops and labs.
• Market-benchmarked salaries, equity, and learning and development budgets.
• Benefits may include health and dental insurance, enhanced parental leave, retirement or pension provisions, therapy access, wellbeing partnerships, and team socials.
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship are available where applicable.

Hiring process

• 25-minute recruiter screen.
• Programming and technical-domain competency interviews lasting approximately two hours.
• Deep-dive interviews covering programming, software design, and team fit, followed by a 30-minute mission and values interview.