Senior Field Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: On-site in Detroit, Michigan, USA; full-time shift-based role with 10–15% travel, including weekends and holidays.

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead diagnosis and resolution of complex vehicle software and hardware issues across regional and global fleet operations.
• Act as the technical escalation point for high-severity, geo-specific faults and support safety-first incident decisions.
• Set technical priorities, mentor Field Engineers, and provide operational support to the Field Engineering Lead.
• Own projects, processes, and systems from problem definition through delivery and global adoption.
• Drive improvements to fleet tooling, workflows, reliability, and operational practices with cross-functional teams.
• Document technical learnings and lead technical meetings with Field Engineering, Fleet Service, engineering, and product stakeholders.

Requirements

• Advanced experience diagnosing complex vehicle software and hardware issues in fleet, automotive, robotics, or ADAS environments.
• Familiarity with logs, deployments, configurations, system states, failure modes, and structured software debugging.
• Ability to solve ambiguous problems independently, make sound technical decisions, and lead initiatives without formal people management responsibility.
• Experience owning projects, processes, or systems end to end and setting technical priorities.
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating across global teams.
• Deep understanding of safety protocols, incident management, operational governance, vehicle diagnostic tools, monitoring platforms such as Datadog and Mender, and JIRA.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting or leading on-road testing operations.
• Strong understanding of ADAS or autonomous vehicle systems.
• Experience working with software engineering teams in fleet or production contexts.
• Experience serving as a senior, deputy, or lead-in-practice within a technical team.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an operational environment focused on vehicle safety, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Market-benchmarked salary, meaningful 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.
• Shift-based global support aligned with on-site Fleet Servicing and Maintenance operations.

Hiring process

• Initial recruiter call lasting 30 minutes.
• Competency interviews covering motivation, communication, and practical problem solving.
• Technical deep dive on diagnosis, triage, structured debugging, and safety mindset, followed by a final mission and values interview.