Senior Connectivity Software Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco, California, United States of America

Salary: $140,000–$225,000 per year

Company

hirify.global IQ is hirify.global’s AI innovation lab, combining startup agility with hirify.global’s global scale to develop intelligent technologies and AI-powered solutions for work, creativity, productivity, and collaboration.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and integrate connectivity software features across Android, Windows, and embedded platforms, including SDKs, frameworks, and system services.
• Implement, optimize, and tune wireless networking protocols and sensing algorithms for enterprise-scale architectures and deployments.
• Design, implement, and troubleshoot peer-to-peer technologies for secure, reliable, and low-latency connectivity across diverse networking scenarios.
• Collaborate with wireless chipset vendors, industry partners, and internal hardware, OS, QA, and engineering teams.
• Analyze and troubleshoot wireless performance degradation, QoS bottlenecks, interoperability issues, and security constraints in large-scale networks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of experience in device software development, including connectivity features, performance tuning, and debugging.
• 3+ years of experience developing software SDKs or frameworks on Android, Linux, or similar operating systems.
• Strong programming skills in Java, C, C++, or Objective-C, with grounding in object-oriented design, debugging, and system-level architecture.
• Familiarity with 802.11 and Bluetooth radio standards and related protocol stacks.
• Experience collaborating across hardware, OS, QA, and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Ability to work independently, drive technical tasks to completion, and communicate root-cause findings clearly to senior leadership and partners.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in C/C++ and embedded systems programming for performance-critical wireless features.
• Strong understanding of peer-to-peer technologies and sensing techniques.
• Experience working directly with wireless chipset vendors to optimize connectivity performance and resolve interoperability issues.
• Comfort working across Linux, Windows, embedded systems, cloud-managed networks, and mobile OS stacks.
• Expertise in wireless performance analysis using Wireshark, logging frameworks, and low-level tracing.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work environment with autonomy and startup-style agility backed by hirify.global’s scale.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, employee assistance program, and flexible spending account.
• Four to twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave based on tenure, 11 paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.
• Opportunity to build AI-powered solutions for intelligent computing and workplace transformation.