Software Engineer - Observability & Debugging (Robotics)

TL;DR

Software Engineer - Observability & Debugging (Robotics): Building and maintaining observability, telemetry, and debugging infrastructure for a production fleet of mobile manipulation robots with an accent on root-cause analysis and reproducibility. Focus on developing structured logging, replay systems, and data pipelines to ensure every robot bug is reproducible.

Location: Must be based in Austin, Texas, United States

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered service robots that collaborate with hospital staff in real-world environments.

What you will do

• Build and maintain observability tooling for root-cause analysis of robot performance in real-world deployments.
• Develop "debug + replay" systems for collecting, curating, and replaying robot logs, events, and telemetry.
• Own foundations for structured logging and application replay systems to make development scalable.
• Improve on-robot metrics generation and integrate visualization tools like Foxglove for effective triage.
• Optimize data management pipelines, including upload flows, retention policies, and indexing.
• Mentor others on best practices for instrumentation, debugging, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Strong proficiency in C++ and Python.
• Experience with robotics, including reading autonomy logs and reasoning about robot state.
• Proven experience building observability systems (metrics, tracing, event pipelines, dashboards).
• Familiarity with diagnosing distributed or real-time systems via profiling and postmortems.
• Location: Must be based in Austin, Texas, United States

Nice to have

• Experience with Foxglove or similar robotics visualization and telemetry tooling.
• Knowledge of ROS bags or equivalent log replay systems.
• Experience with data pipelines (capture, upload, storage, indexing, and retrieval).