Senior Software Systems Engineer (Robotics)

TL;DR

Senior Software Systems Engineer (Robotics): Participating in building the hirify.global robotaxi with an accent on software development best practices across middleware components, including requirements, architectural design, code quality, and testing strategy. Focus on defining diagnostics strategies and appropriate system reactions to ensure robust, safe, and maintainable operation.

Location: Foster City, CA

Salary: $192,000 - $275,000 a year

Company

hirify.global is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market.

What you will do

• Act as a cross-functional bridge between middleware developers, and safety teams to ensure aligned design decisions and requirements.
• Develop and maintain a holistic architectural view of the middleware stack, including dependencies, interfaces and potential failure paths, for various compute platforms.
• Help evolve and strengthen the middleware and diagnostics architecture by identifying improvement opportunities such as decoupling interdependent components, designing appropriate fault reactions, etc.
• Define and implement component and system level diagnostics strategy, including fault detection, reporting, logging and traceability.
• Analyze fault propagation scenarios across components and help design mitigations that improve system availability and safety.
• Generate and track fault metrics on a regular cadence.

Requirements

• B.S./M.S./PhD in Engineering, Physics or relevant field and 7+ years of experience
• Strong experience in middleware, ideally in embedded or distributed systems
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate architectural and safety considerations into actionable engineering requirements
• Demonstrated ability to apply software engineering best practices
• Experience working in cross-functional environments involving platform, safety and software teams

Nice to have

• Hands on experience with design and implementation of diagnostic systems such as health monitoring, fault reduction or logging frameworks
• C++, MATLAB, Python
• Experience on Safety-Critical Systems

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive package of benefits, including paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement), unpaid time off, hirify.global Stock Appreciation Rights, Amazon RSUs, health insurance, long-term care insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, and life insurance.