Staff Software Engineer (Secondary Driving System)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Secondary Driving System): Building robust production-quality C++ software across perception, tracking, prediction, planning, controls, and system integration for fail-operational autonomous driving backup with an accent on multi-sensor fusion, real-time performance, and safety-critical behaviors. Focus on architecting scalable pipelines, leading end-to-end technical strategy for key features, and optimizing under strict latency and compute constraints.

Location: Remote Sunnyvale, California

Salary: $218,800–$335,300

Company

hirify.global is redefining driver assistance and automated driving through Embodied AI teams combining robotics, optimization, and machine learning.

What you will do

• Serve as technical lead for SDS software across the stack, setting direction for algorithms, architectures, and interfaces.
• Own end-to-end technical strategy for SDS behaviors spanning perception, prediction, planning, controls, and system interactions.
• Design and implement critical components in modern C++ while guiding senior and mid-level engineers.
• Lead multi-object tracking systems, short-horizon motion prediction, and trade-offs between classical and ML approaches.
• Profile and optimize components for runtime performance, determinism, and resource usage using evaluation frameworks.
• Collaborate with safety, systems engineering, and cross-org teams to align with functional safety and autonomy roadmaps.
• Provide technical mentorship, lead design reviews, and foster data-driven engineering culture.

Requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
• 8+ years professional software engineering in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or real-time systems, with perception/prediction experience
• Strong proficiency in modern C++ (C++14/17+) and Python for tooling/data/ML
• Experience leading perception/tracking/prediction: multi-sensor fusion, computer vision, multi-object tracking, motion prediction
• Track record delivering production software: testing strategies, metrics/dashboards, performance tuning
• Strong communication to influence across ML, systems, hardware, safety teams

Nice to have

• Camera/radar/lidar perception and fusion for ADAS/autonomous driving
• Deep expertise in AV tracking/prediction (interaction-aware, occupancy)
• GPU/ML inference optimization (TensorRT, ONNX)
• Safety-critical software and functional safety alignment
• ROS or real-time/embedded platforms

Culture & Benefits

• Health and wellbeing programs: medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA
• Retirement savings plan, life insurance, sickness/accident benefits
• Paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance, employee assistance program
• GM vehicle discounts
• Incentive pay based on company/job/individual performance
• Inclusive workplace fostering belonging and development