Robotics Software Engineer (Multimodal Inspection)

Location: Irvine, California, United States. On-site.

Company

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

What you will do

• Develop inspection modalities beyond RGB, including radiometric thermal, gas detection, and acoustic signatures.
• Fuse multimodal sensing into perception and mission pipelines.
• Implement sensing-based behavior activation.
• Deliver per-asset evidence and alerts into the data platform and on-premises flows.
• Analyze multimodal inspection performance across real-world deployments.

Requirements

• MS in robotics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, computer science, or a related field, plus 3+ years building sensing software for real robots.
• Strong C++ and Python skills, with experience using ROS 2 to integrate sensor drivers and real-time pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with camera and thermal calibration, cross-modal registration, and geometry for projecting detections between sensors and into 3D.
• Experience working with real-time constraints, including latency budgets, dropout handling, and persisting data through network outages.
• Experience debugging sensors on robots in field environments without desk-based infrastructure.

Nice to have

• Optical gas imaging, multi-gas sensing, or radiometric thermal analysis.
• Acoustic anomaly detection for rotating machinery.
• Predictive maintenance integrations with CMMS or SCADA, or functional safety experience.
• Experience applying foundation models to thermal or non-RGB imagery.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site work with real robots, sensors, and hardware deployments in Irvine.
• Work on systems that are tested and improved through real-world field deployments.
• Work within the Mission, Interaction & Intelligence engineering department.