Autonomy Platform & Runtime Lead (Robotics)

Location: Torrance, California, United States

Salary: $201,000–$281,000 USD annually; base salary only, with equity grants considered part of total compensation.

Company

hirify.global is a defense technology company designing and manufacturing high-performance unmanned systems for large-scale deployment.

What you will do

• Own the architecture, roadmap, and delivery of the autonomy runtime, including module interfaces, process and thread models, message passing, execution rates, and latency guarantees.
• Maintain a configurable autonomy runtime across all vehicle platforms and prevent divergence into program-specific software forks.
• Lead real-time scheduling, latency accounting, deadline monitoring, time synchronization, and high-rate on-vehicle logging.
• Own embedded build, release, versioning, continuous integration, and deployment workflows for bench and field vehicles.
• Represent autonomy requirements in hardware co-design and bill-of-materials decisions, including compute, memory, power, thermal, and mass requirements.
• Lead and grow the platform engineering team through hiring, mentorship, and technical reviews while contributing directly to the codebase.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience developing production embedded, robotics, or real-time software, including 2+ years leading an engineering team or technical program.
• Demonstrated delivery of software onto physical vehicles or embedded platforms operating outside a laboratory, through bring-up, integration, and field operation.
• Expert proficiency in modern C++ on embedded Linux and working proficiency in Python for tooling and automation.
• Experience owning a robotics or vehicle runtime or middleware layer, with expertise in scheduling, inter-process communication, message passing, and latency analysis.
• Experience with time synchronization, hardware time-stamping, embedded build and release systems, continuous integration, cross-compilation, reproducible artifacts, and field updates.
• Experience deploying neural networks to embedded accelerators and working with hardware and electrical engineering teams on compute payload and bill-of-materials decisions.

Nice to have

• Unmanned aircraft experience with mission computers, flight controllers or autopilots, PX4, ArduPilot, or MAVLink.
• Experience designing hardware-in-the-loop benches and integrating them into automated release gating.
• Experience taking a software platform through volume manufacturing, factory provisioning, calibration data management, and staged fleet updates.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, hands-on environment focused on moving systems from design to deployment.
• Opportunity to work on unmanned systems tested in operational conditions and produced at scale.
• Competitive equity grants as part of the total compensation package.
• Equal opportunity employment without regard to protected characteristics.