Senior Robotics Software Engineer – AI-Enabled Manipulation & Industrial Automation

Location: On-site 5 days per week in Mountain View, California, United States

Salary: $153,200–$234,100 per year, plus bonus potential.

Company

hirify.global develops automotive and manufacturing solutions focused on safer, more sustainable, and more equitable mobility.

What you will do

• Design, integrate, validate, and deploy AI-enabled robotic applications for pick-and-place, material handling, machine tending, inspection support, and vision-guided manipulation.
• Build collision-aware manipulation pipelines covering perception, grasp generation, inverse kinematics, trajectory planning, collision avoidance, execution, and gripper control.
• Develop perception and AI systems for detection, segmentation, 6D pose estimation, RGB-D and point-cloud processing, scene understanding, and grasp-point generation.
• Develop closed-loop systems, VLA models, learned policies, imitation-learning workflows, and sensor-driven failure recovery.
• Use NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Omniverse, and Replicator for digital environments, synthetic data, simulation validation, and simulation-to-real development.
• Own robotics architecture, hardware calibration, compliant control, debugging, performance validation, and transition from prototypes through manufacturing deployment.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
• At least 2 years of experience developing robotic software or applications involving manipulation, perception, motion planning, simulation, industrial automation, or related systems.
• Strong Python, C++, and ROS 2 development skills with experience building modular robotics software.
• Knowledge of AI/ML workflows for robotic perception, learned manipulation, multimodal robotics, and autonomous systems.
• Strong understanding of robotic manipulation, perception, motion planning, controls, coordinate transformations, simulation, and automation software.
• Experience with inverse kinematics, trajectory generation and execution, collision checking, robot state representation, gripper control, and integration of manipulators, sensors, and automation hardware.
• Experience developing or integrating perception systems for detection, segmentation, pose estimation, RGB-D, point clouds, or grasp generation, including real-time or near-real-time AI/perception applications.
• Experience debugging complex systems across software, simulation, AI, networking, and physical hardware interfaces; strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, documentation, independent-work, and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• 5+ years of experience in robotics software, industrial robotics, AI-enabled robotics, manipulation, or automation systems.
• Experience with FANUC, Universal Robots, industrial or collaborative manipulators, grippers, cameras, depth sensors, material handling, machine tending, factory simulation, virtual commissioning, or plant-floor robotics.
• Experience with MoveIt, MoveIt Task Constructor, Lula, RMPflow, OMPL, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, or Omniverse Replicator.
• Experience with VLA models, multimodal robotics, imitation learning, learned manipulation policies, synthetic data, domain randomization, automated annotation, and simulation-to-real transfer.
• Experience with 3D perception, PyTorch, TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, control-loop optimization, inference latency, trajectory execution, and production deployment.
• Optional experience integrating robotic cells with PLCs, safety I/O, and industrial safety configurations under ISO 10218 and ISO/TS 15066.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time on-site role with a base salary range of $153,200–$234,100 and incentive bonus potential.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, retirement savings, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, employee assistance, and GM vehicle discounts.
• Inclusive workplace with equal employment opportunities and accommodations for applicants with disabilities.

Hiring process

• A role-related assessment and/or pre-employment screening may be required before starting employment.
• Applicants requiring an accommodation should contact GM Careers Accommodations and include the requested accommodation, job title, and requisition number.