Engineering Manager, Platform Integration, Robot Software (Robotics)

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid working model with in-person collaboration in office spaces, remote work, core hours, and hands-on work in vehicle workshops and labs.

Company

hirify.global is building an embodied AI platform for autonomous driving that integrates with global OEM partners and enables vehicles to learn from real-world experience.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, hire, and develop engineers, including onboarding, performance management, feedback, and career progression.
• Own the team mission, roadmap, resourcing, delivery, dependencies, priorities, and technical risks.
• Lead new vehicle integrations from preparation and bench integration through vehicle bring-up, validation, and handover.
• Guide the architecture and development of vehicle-facing software, Vehicle Driver components, and drive-by-wire interfaces.
• Improve reliability and release quality through measurable targets, testing ownership, field feedback, releases, and escalated-issue management.
• Develop reusable playbooks, tooling, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer practices while coordinating with software, hardware, controls, safety, operations, customers, and suppliers.

Requirements

• Strong experience leading and developing software or systems engineering teams, including coaching, hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Experience owning a team roadmap and delivering complex engineering programmes through others while managing priorities, resources, dependencies, and technical risk.
• Practical experience developing and integrating embedded or robotics software in a physical product.
• Ability to guide architectural decisions and review software designs that interact with hardware, balancing immediate delivery with maintainability and reuse.
• Understanding of bringing up new hardware and software platforms, including testing, fault diagnosis, validation, and operational handover.
• Experience building ownership of reliability and quality through metrics and lessons from real-world operation.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to align teams with different priorities around shared technical outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience with automotive systems, drive-by-wire, CAN, automotive Ethernet, vehicle controls, or bench and hardware-in-the-loop testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work combining in-person collaboration with focused remote work.
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.
• Meaningful equity and market-benchmarked salaries.
• Learning and development budgets for training, conferences, and growth.
• Health, dental, maternity and paternity, retirement or pension, therapy, wellbeing, and team-social benefits where applicable.
• Ownership in an evolving environment where processes and playbooks are still being developed.

Hiring process

• Initial recruiter call lasting 30 minutes.
• Programming and hiring-manager competency interviews lasting 2 hours total, followed by 3 hours of programming, systems, and domain-specific technical interviews.
• Final hirify.global value-alignment interview lasting 45 minutes; the format is explained in advance and scheduled around candidate availability.