Software Engineer - Robotic Applications (Robotics)

TL;DR

Software Engineer - Robotic Applications (Robotics): Strengthen and extend core robotics platform including task management, behavior orchestration, motion planning, localization, and controls. Focus on deploying, integrating, and evaluating Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and AI-generated manipulation behaviors on production robots in hospitals.

Austin, Texas, United States

Company

hirify.global builds artificial intelligence enabling service robots to collaborate with people in dynamic hospital environments, operating a production fleet of mobile manipulation robots.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain core robotics platform subsystems like task management, behavior systems, planning, localization, and control.
• Collaborate with Embodied AI team to deploy, evaluate, and iterate on autonomy models in real robotic applications.
• Integrate emerging components such as world models into production workflows, emphasizing reliability and observability.
• Build test harnesses, regression coverage, and debugging tools for high-confidence releases and fast iteration.
• Contribute to architecture decisions improving modularity, testability, and maintainability of the robotics stack.
• Mentor teammates and elevate engineering quality, reliability, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex cyber-physical systems.
• Strong proficiency in C++ and Python.
• Core robotics expertise in at least one major domain (planning, localization, controls, behavior systems, task execution).
• Experience shipping software on real robots and debugging in unstructured, real-world environments.
• Strong systems thinking across autonomy, platform infrastructure, and operational needs; excellent cross-functional communication.