Software Engineering Manager (AI)

TL;DR

Software Engineering Manager (AI): Leading the Semantic Mapping team responsible for building hirify.global’s world-class 3D environment model from multi-modal sensor data with an accent on AI architectures, computer vision, and machine learning techniques. Focus on improving performance on long-tail classes and supporting geofence and fleet size expansion.

Location: Foster City, CA

Salary: $277,000 - $333,000 a year

Company

hirify.global is reinventing personal transportation by creating vehicles specifically for dense, complicated urban environments.

What you will do

• Lead the technical strategy for core occupancy modeling and rare event detection.
• Drive the development and deployment of critical perception models.
• Lead the adoption of state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning techniques.
• Collaborate with simulation and data teams to leverage synthetic data and edge-case scenarios.
• Drive organizational health by balancing technical leadership with people management.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of computer vision systems, AI software stacks, and sensor fusion across multiple modalities.
• 3+ years of technical leadership experience, 10+ years of experience in computer vision, machine learning and related fields.
• Strong leadership skills in recruiting, leading, growing, and managing technical team members.
• Expertise in implementing autonomy solutions and deploying real-world systems.
• Experience with recent AI approaches including VLM, LLM, Transformers and GenAI (3D/4D GS, Diffusion, NeRF).

Nice to have

• Familiarity with perception of autonomous vehicles or similar robots.
• Hands-on experience having deployed real products or platforms into the real world.
• Involvement in validation or evaluation of risk and/or 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.