Robotics Software Engineer, Vision-Language Reasoning & Behaviors (AI)

Location: Irvine, California, United States; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops risk-aware, reliable, field-ready embodied AI systems for real robots, sensors, and industrial deployments.

What you will do

• Develop visual reasoning and inspection algorithms and pipelines for real-world deployments.
• Build inspection capabilities and reusable robot behavior primitives.
• Integrate on-edge vision-language inference into behavior loops within compute and latency budgets.
• Develop legible robot reasoning and judgment and integrate it across mission workflows.

Requirements

• MS in robotics, computer science, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field, plus 3+ years building software that runs on real robots.
• Strong C++ and Python skills.
• Hands-on ROS 2 experience designing nodes and systems that ship.
• Working knowledge of behavior trees and computer vision.
• Experience integrating learned models into a robotics system.

Nice to have

• Experience with open-vocabulary detection or visual grounding using vision-language models on robots.
• GPU inference optimization on embedded hardware, including TensorRT, quantization, or ONNX.
• Experience with thermal imaging or anomaly detection against reference imagery.
• Deployments on legged platforms in industrial environments.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site work with the Irvine robotics team.
• Work with real robots, sensors, and field deployments.
• Software is tested on hardware and improved through real deployments.
• Focus on rigorous engineering, learning systems, reliability, and risk-aware field operation.