Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Core Frameworks (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Salary: $160,800–$193,000 USD annually, plus potential bonus and stock options.

Company

hirify.global develops software for automated trucks and autonomous driving systems as part of the Daimler family.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of core frameworks for state management, inter-component communication, abstraction layers, and shared utilities.
• Drive the technical direction of real-time C++ components supporting data flow, component coordination, error handling, and observability.
• Define scalable architectural patterns, integration boundaries, and shared abstractions across Behavior and Perception teams.
• Lead architecture, design, and code reviews; establish standards for reliability, maintainability, testability, and scalability.
• Mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, investigate platform-level issues, and drive improvements in performance and operational resilience.
• Develop simulation, validation, testing, and production-readiness frameworks for autonomous driving components and edge cases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline with 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or a master’s degree with 6+ years of professional experience.
• Demonstrated success designing and evolving complex production software platforms with ownership of architectural decisions.
• Deep experience with C++17 and recent standards; comfortable using Python for scripting and system integration.
• Experience with autonomous systems, robotics, distributed systems, or complex embedded environments using middleware with publish-subscribe communication patterns.
• Strong experience with testing, continuous integration, and build systems.
• Deep systems-level software design experience, including managing technical debt, refactoring large codebases, and evolving platforms while maintaining stability and performance.
• Experience mentoring engineers through technical leadership, architecture reviews, code reviews, and scalable engineering standards.
• Mastery of modular and composable architecture, design patterns, concurrency, testing strategies, and long-term maintainability.

Nice to have

• Experience with robotics middleware such as ROS 2.
• Expertise in distributed systems, including consensus algorithms, state synchronization, event-driven architectures, and deterministic replay.
• Familiarity with ISO 26262, SOTIF, ASPICE, or other safety-critical software development standards.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Bazel, and Bazel-based build systems.
• Experience designing observability, logging, and monitoring systems for complex distributed systems.
• Experience with simulation-based regression testing and managing versioning and conversion of data schemas at scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position with a collaborative, energetic, and team-focused culture.
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% employer match.
• Flexible schedule and generous paid vacation available immediately after the start date.
• AD&D and life insurance, with potential bonus, stock options, sign-on payments, relocation, and other compensation depending on the position.