Staff Software Engineer (Simulation)

Location: Remote within the United States; candidates living within a specific radius of a GM hub must report to the location three times a week or at another manager-defined frequency. Relocation benefits are available for qualifying candidates.

Salary: $160,200–$290,700 base salary, plus potential incentive pay.

Company

hirify.global develops automotive and manufacturing technologies with a focus on zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion.

What you will do

• Build and own simulation environments for manipulation, perception, and navigation validation.
• Model robot platforms with physically accurate dynamics, kinematics, actuation, and realistic RGB-D and LiDAR sensor noise.
• Develop scene and facility authoring tools, including CAD and plant-model import paths.
• Integrate simulation into CI so scenario coverage runs on every release candidate.
• Support AI data generation and policy evaluation, and quantify where simulation diverges from hardware.
• Drive the virtual commissioning and digital twin roadmap, including workcell import and collaborative authoring.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years building or operating robotics simulation.
• Experience validating real robot behavior against simulation and closing the gap, and supporting teams as an infrastructure owner.
• M.S. degree or higher in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related technical field; equivalent industry experience with demonstrated simulation depth may be considered.
• Hands-on experience with a commercial or open-source simulator such as Process Simulate, Isaac Sim, Gazebo, or a comparable tool.
• Strong understanding of rigid body dynamics, contact modeling, numerical integration, and solver limitations.
• Experience with sensor simulation and rendering, including LiDAR and depth camera models.
• Experience with GPU-accelerated or parallel simulation for large-scale data generation.
• Experience with URDF, SDF, USD, and their conversion pitfalls.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python; ability to balance simulation fidelity, speed, and accuracy and identify when results should not be trusted.
• Ability to work effectively with remote teams across multiple time zones and treat simulation as a product with internal users.

Nice to have

• Experience with sim-to-real transfer and domain randomization.
• Experience with virtual commissioning or digital twin projects in manufacturing.
• Familiarity with Visual Components, Process Simulate, or comparable process simulation tools.
• Open-source contributions to Gazebo, Isaac Sim, or the ROS ecosystem.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work within the United States, with conditional hybrid attendance near a GM hub.
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, retirement savings, life insurance, sickness and accident benefits, and paid vacation and holidays.
• Tuition assistance, employee assistance programs, and GM vehicle discounts.
• Eligible employees may participate in a company vehicle evaluation program after a successful motor vehicle report review; participants generally must purchase or lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years.
• Employment decisions follow U.S. equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements; role-related assessments or pre-employment screening may apply.