Calibration, Mapping & Localization Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Sunnyvale, United States

Salary: $150,000–$205,000 annually

Company

Mobility AI company developing safety-first, user-centric software-defined vehicle technologies for passenger vehicles, robotaxis, buses, and trucks as part of a global automotive group.

What you will do

• Design and implement sensor calibration systems for cameras, LiDAR, radar, and IMU sensors in factory and field environments.
• Build and maintain mapping pipelines covering map creation, versioning, and drift detection.
• Develop and improve localization algorithms using sensor fusion, odometry, and SLAM.
• Define accuracy, latency, and reliability requirements for outputs consumed by perception and planning teams.
• Build fleet-scale tooling for calibration and localization quality validation.
• Diagnose and resolve calibration and localization failures found in on-road and simulation testing.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to solve difficult technical problems methodically and with growing independence.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 2–4 years of experience in sensor calibration, SLAM, mapping, localization, or multi-sensor fusion.
• Working knowledge of estimation theory, including Kalman filters, factor graphs, or optimization-based fusion.
• Solid software engineering skills in C++ and/or Python, with experience contributing to production-grade robotics systems.

Nice to have

• Exposure to autonomous driving or robotics across multiple vehicle classes.
• Exposure to HD map creation and maintenance pipelines.
• Experience with LiDAR, camera, or radar extrinsic calibration.
• Familiarity with functional safety requirements such as ISO 26262.

Culture & Benefits

• Founding-team opportunity to shape calibration and localization architecture, methodology, tooling, and technical roadmaps as the fleet scales.
• Work focused on safety-first, user-centric software-defined vehicle technologies.
• Full-time employment in Sunnyvale, United States.
• Equal opportunity workplace with encouragement for U.S. veterans, employment-preference-eligible candidates, and qualified individuals with disabilities.

Hiring process

• Application review, coding test, first interview, second interview, offer negotiation, and hiring; screening steps may vary by position, schedule, or other circumstances.
• Submit application documents in PDF format under 30MB and exclude personal information unrelated to job qualifications.
• If resume upload issues occur, send the resume and job posting URL to recruit@hirify.global.ai; unsolicited resumes are not accepted.