Staff Robotics Software Engineer, Perception & AI

Location: USA Wilmington, MA - HQ; hybrid. Up to 5%-10% travel may be required, including travel to client locations and company headquarters.

Salary: $149,000.00-$223,000.00 base pay annually, with variation based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered robotic and software platforms for warehouse automation and supply-chain operations.

What you will do

• Architect, implement, optimize, and maintain real-time 3D LiDAR and point-cloud perception, filtering, calibration, and sensor-noise handling algorithms in Modern C++ and Python.
• Own perception functionality from sensor characterization and design reviews through testing, validation, and fleet deployment.
• Develop intelligent agents and automated pipelines for data labeling, dataset curation, edge-case triage, and large-scale offline regression validation.
• Research autonomous recovery, robot learning, adaptive decision-making, and behavior-generation approaches for perception-driven robotics.
• Integrate perception and autonomy decisions with Controls, System Software, and System Test teams across multiple robot platforms and operating conditions.
• Lead architecture, testing, documentation, code reviews, and mentoring while maintaining high engineering standards.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of related or equivalent work experience.
• Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong proficiency in Modern C++ and Python, with Linux, real-time or low-latency systems, and multithreaded programming experience.
• Hands-on experience developing perception or autonomy software for physical robotic systems or autonomous vehicles, including 3D point clouds, filtering, clustering, spatial calibration, and coordinate geometry.
• Experience integrating, debugging, validating, and deploying production perception systems with ROS/ROS2 or comparable robotics middleware.
• Familiarity with PCL, OpenCV, Docker, and edge-compute environments.
• Experience building automated data or machine learning pipelines, intelligent agents, robot learning systems, automated labeling workflows, or related autonomy capabilities.
• Strong technical communication and architectural leadership skills, including independently driving design reviews, documenting technical decisions, collaborating across engineering disciplines, and mentoring engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a collaborative environment of innovators, collaborators, and pioneers.
• Up to 5%-10% travel may be required; a valid driver's license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client locations and company headquarters are required.
• Business travel expenses are reimbursed under program guidelines; a personal credit card may be required during onboarding until a corporate card is issued.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability coverage, 401K, PTO, and/or other benefits.
• Equal opportunity employment with no discrimination based on legally protected characteristics.