Senior Software Engineer, Motion Controls

Location: Mountain View, CA or Pittsburgh, PA, United States; workplace type listed as remote, with office attendance expected at least 3 days per week and potentially up to 5 days based on operational needs.

Salary: $160,000–$262,000 per year for roles based in Mountain View, CA; $146,000–$234,000 per year for roles based in Pittsburgh, PA. Annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits are also available.

Company

hirify.global develops self-driving technology for transportation and logistics, with a focus on improving road safety, efficiency, and accessibility.

What you will do

• Design, implement, integrate, and verify the motion control system of the hirify.global Driver across vehicle platforms.
• Develop motion control algorithms for a safety-critical system.
• Analyze control system performance in offline and on-road execution environments.
• Verify system robustness against disturbances, failure modes, and environmental conditions.
• Contribute to a transportation ecosystem based on autonomous driving technology.

Requirements

• Experience designing control systems with a solid foundation in control theory.
• Experience building production-quality C++ code.
• 5+ years of experience working on control systems for robots or vehicles in automotive, aerospace, robotics, or related fields.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with fail-safe and fail-operational control systems.
• Experience verifying the design of safety-critical and/or autonomous systems.
• Experience analyzing or simulating nonlinear vehicle dynamics.
• Knowledge of state estimation and signal processing techniques.
• Master’s or PhD in a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Expected in-person collaboration at least 3 days per week, with more frequent office presence possible based on operational needs.
• Annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.
• Emphasis on safety, integrity, collaboration, inclusion, and reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.