Camera Systems Engineer (Robotics)

Location: San Carlos, CA, United States; on-site

Salary: $230K–$285K base plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds humanoid robots, including NEO, for performing household tasks safely in real-world environments.

What you will do

• Own camera selection end to end, defining sensor, lens, and module requirements with hardware and perception teams and leading vendor engagement and hardware bring-up.
• Deliver production-ready camera pipelines with sensor drivers, multi-camera synchronization, timestamping, and latency-aware frame delivery.
• Tune exposure, white balance, and dynamic range for perception models operating in low light and hard backlight conditions.
• Turn camera calibration into a production-line process, including intrinsic and extrinsic calibration, automated validation, fleet drift monitoring, and field recovery.
• Debug camera systems across the hardware and software boundary, including dropped frames, timestamp instability, bandwidth, and power or clock sequencing issues.

Requirements

• 5+ years shipping camera or imaging software in production systems in robotics, autonomous vehicles, consumer devices, or AR/VR.
• Hands-on experience bringing up image sensors on embedded Linux, including V4L2, MIPI CSI-2, drivers, and device tree work.
• Demonstrated experience with camera intrinsic and extrinsic calibration, including validating calibration quality rather than relying on solver output.
• Strong C++ for performance-critical systems, with profiling and debugging experience focused on frame and latency performance.

Nice to have

• ISP tuning and image quality evaluation for perception models.
• Experience taking calibration into manufacturing, including fixture and station design, cycle time, yield, and build-data failure analysis.
• Familiarity with CUDA or GPU image processing and zero-copy image transport between processes.
• Experience with multi-camera synchronization, stereo rectification, or camera-IMU time alignment.

Culture & Benefits

• Builder-oriented environment emphasizing ownership, speed, direct communication, completion, honesty, and respect.
• On-site role with snacks and catered lunches.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, EAP, FSA, and HSA benefits.
• Paid time off, company holidays, parental leave, commuter benefits, and a 401(k) with company match.