Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning (Autonomous Driving)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States; office-based role.

Salary: $185,000–$245,000 USD annual base salary for the SF/Silicon Valley location; total compensation also includes equity, bonuses, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops Physical AI and driverless technology, including an AI-powered autonomous driving system for long-haul trucking, industrial trucking, and defense.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and improve behavior and motion planning features for autonomous driving.
• Own planning projects from problem definition through design, implementation, validation, deployment, and analysis.
• Debug autonomy behavior using logs, simulation, metrics, and real-world data.
• Improve the balance between safety, comfort, progress, and operational constraints.
• Define success metrics and validation plans for planning features.
• Collaborate with Prediction, Controls, Perception, ML, Simulation, Systems, and Safety teams; participate in technical design, code review, and architecture discussions.

Requirements

• Leadership experience, ideally including management of direct reports, while remaining hands-on with implementation.
• Experience in behavior planning, motion planning, decision-making, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or related areas.
• Strong software engineering skills, preferably in C++.
• Experience building autonomy software in industrial, production, or near-production environments.
• Ability to debug complex robotics or autonomy behavior using logs, metrics, and simulation.
• Strong system-level judgment regarding safety, comfort, and deployment readiness.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Safe, diverse, and collaborative working environment with equal opportunity employment.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans, including infertility benefits, plus legal, identity protection, disability, life, accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness insurance.
• Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, generous parental leave, and wellbeing benefits.
• Office perks include a dog-friendly office, catered lunch, stocked kitchen, and free EV charging.
• Fidelity 401(k), commuter benefits, FSA, dependent care FSA, HSA, referral bonuses, and patent bonuses.
• Visa sponsorship may be available for eligible candidates; sensitive roles may involve residence, U.S. person, citizenship, export-control, or national-security eligibility checks.