Senior Robotics Engineer (LiDAR/3D Sensing)

Location: Hybrid in Sunnyvale, California, USA or London, United Kingdom

Estimated base salary: $276,100–$293,750 annually

Company

hirify.global is building an AI platform for autonomous driving that learns from real-world experience and supports mapless, hardware-agnostic vehicle automation.

What you will do

• Define the architecture and technical roadmap for LiDAR and cross-sensor 3D sensing.
• Develop target-based and targetless LiDAR calibration and registration, including LiDAR-to-camera alignment.
• Build temporal alignment and motion-compensation methods using LiDAR odometry, nonlinear least-squares optimisation and factor graphs.
• Establish evaluation methodologies and productionise reliable 3D sensing systems across vehicles, environments and sensor configurations.
• Collaborate with research and engineering teams while providing technical leadership and mentorship.

Requirements

• Significant experience developing robotics or autonomous-driving systems involving LiDAR, cameras and 3D sensor data.
• Strong knowledge of sensor calibration, registration, 3D geometry, state estimation and optimisation.
• Experience with sensor timing, LiDAR sweep distortion, rolling-shutter cameras and motion compensation.
• Strong C++ and/or Python software-engineering skills, including taking algorithms from prototype through production deployment.
• Experience defining evaluation methodologies, datasets and metrics for real-world 3D sensing.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including setting direction and mentoring engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with LiDAR odometry, SLAM, mapping, metric-depth foundation models or learned feature correspondences.
• Familiarity with Gaussian splatting, dynamic-scene processing or other emerging 3D representations.
• Experience with GTSAM, Ceres Solver or g2o.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with in-person collaboration, remote work and core hours.
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.
• Access to vehicle workshops and labs.
• Equity, learning and development budgets, and support for training and conferences.
• Health, dental, retirement or pension benefits, enhanced parental leave and wellbeing support where applicable.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screen covering background, interests and hiring context.
• Competency interviews covering programming and code review, followed by deep-dive technical interviews on domain knowledge and system design.
• Final interview focused on mission and values alignment.