Embedded Software Engineer (Autonomous Driving)

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

Salary: $275,000–$293,000 per year plus equity

Company

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

What you will do

• Build and maintain embedded Linux and QNX platform software, kernels, and device drivers.
• Develop high-quality C and C++ software for remotely operated autonomous vehicles.
• Diagnose performance and reliability issues involving stack traces, core dumps, disk I/O, CPU load, memory, devices, and threading.
• Improve fault tolerance, diagnostics, testing, documentation, observability, and developer tooling.
• Integrate platform software across NVIDIA Jetson, NVIDIA DRIVE, QNX, and future vehicle-compute platforms.
• Collaborate with product, program, hardware, and engineering stakeholders while mentoring teammates.

Requirements

• Strong C and C++ experience developing high-performance embedded Linux system software.
• Hands-on knowledge of embedded Linux kernels, device trees, Yocto, boot flows, or user-space systems software.
• Ability to debug complex performance and reliability problems across system layers.
• Understanding of IPC mechanisms and middleware used in high-throughput robotics systems.
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle, from design through delivery and optimization.
• Ability to work in a hybrid role based in Sunnyvale, California, USA.

Nice to have

• Experience with NVIDIA robotics or automotive platforms.
• Experience with QNX or another RTOS.
• Knowledge of secure boot or ROS-style frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with core hours and hands-on access to vehicle workshops and labs.
• Meaningful equity and annually benchmarked salaries.
• Learning and development budgets for training and conferences.
• Health insurance, dental coverage, enhanced parental leave, retirement or pension benefits where applicable, wellbeing support, and team socials.
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.

Hiring process

• 25-minute recruiter screening.
• Programming and technical-domain competency interviews.
• Deep-dive interviews covering programming, software design, and team fit, followed by a final mission and values interview.