Staff Motion Planning Software Engineer (Robotics)

TL;DR

Staff Motion Planning Software Engineer (Robotics): Developing real-time trajectory generation and decision-making systems for a global autonomous drone delivery fleet with an accent on multi-agent planning and collision avoidance. Focus on joint optimization of safety, energy, and reliability in uncertain environments using MPC and convex optimization.

Location: South San Francisco, California, USA

Salary: $225,000 - $280,000

Company

hirify.global is the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, designing and operating a global drone delivery service for critical medical supplies, food, and retail products.

What you will do

• Build real-time trajectory generation and decision-making for autonomous flight using MPC, sampling, and optimization.
• Design collision avoidance and large-scale multi-agent planning for fleets scaling to 10,000+ flights per day.
• Tackle joint optimization across safety, energy, time, and reliability in uncertain environments.
• Extend the autonomy stack for new aircraft and payloads, defining interfaces with perception and controls.
• Validate autonomy through scenario libraries, SIL/HIL simulation, log replay, and fault-injection.
• Analyze real fleet data to validate safety metrics and resolve long-tail failure modes.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience building software for safety-critical systems in aerospace, AV, or robotics.
• Strong proficiency in Rust, C++, or C for real-time, fault-tolerant code on embedded/Linux systems.
• Deep expertise in planning & search (A*, RRT*), trajectory optimization, or multi-agent deconfliction.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale simulation and metrics-driven validation.
• Must be located in or able to work from South San Francisco, California.

Culture & Benefits

• High-leverage IC role with ownership over decisions shaping the global flight stack.
• Opportunity to work at the technical frontier of real-time multi-agent autonomy.
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off and potential for equity compensation and performance bonuses.
• Direct, meaningful impact on global healthcare and logistics accessibility.