Software Engineer, Sensors and System Software (C++, Linux) (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Austin, Texas; onsite five days a week. Remote work is not available.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous driving technology and vehicles.

What you will do

• Design, develop, optimize, debug, and maintain low-latency device drivers and software pipelines for cameras, LiDAR, radar, IMU, GNSS, microphones, actuators, and other vehicle sensors.
• Develop timestamping, filtering, preprocessing, synchronization, and sensor-health analysis pipelines for perception and localization systems.
• Write userspace C++ and Python software, tools, and tests for embedded Linux vehicle computers.
• Integrate new sensors and computers on the bench and in vehicles, resolving software, network, and hardware issues such as dropped packets and incorrect timestamps.
• Collaborate with embedded, perception, localization, firmware, and hardware teams and participate in the support rotation.
• Build expertise in sensor characteristics, operating principles, configuration parameters, and application nuances.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, a related STEM field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 2 years of production software development experience, including at least 1 year of professional C++ development.
• Proficiency in modern C++ including RAII, smart pointers, STL containers, and threads, plus working knowledge of Python for scripts and data checks.
• Experience with software running on real hardware such as robots, vehicles, drones, embedded boards, or other devices, gained at work, in a research lab, or through a serious project or competition.
• Daily Linux use, including command-line development and debugging and basic networking with IP addresses, TCP/UDP, and sockets.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Ability to work onsite in Austin five days per week; the role involves working on hardware.
• Authorization to work in the United States is required.

Nice to have

• Network debugging with Wireshark, tcpdump, ip, or ethtool.
• Knowledge of automotive cameras, LiDAR, radar, IMU, GNSS, sensor calibration, and their operating principles and limitations.
• ROS, ROS 2, robotics middleware, or related communication protocols.
• Sensor drivers or processing software for radar and camera data, or sensor-development experience.
• Real-time embedded systems, asynchronous low-latency and safety-critical processes, threads, timers, and interrupts.
• Embedded Linux, custom Linux systems, kernel-space sensor pipelines, NVIDIA Jetson, or hardware bring-up and debugging.
• Automotive interfaces including CAN, SPI, I2C, PCIe, and Ethernet, plus experience reviewing embedded-device schematics and designs.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with autonomous-driving sensors and embedded hardware in a team spanning embedded, perception, localization, firmware, and hardware engineering.
• Work is performed onsite in Austin; remote work is unavailable.
• The employer does not offer relocation or visa sponsorship.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants and employees with disabilities.