Senior Software Engineer (Simulation)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Simulation): Building a discrete event simulation platform to complement high-fidelity robotics simulations with an accent on scheduling strategies and fleet coordination. Focus on developing experiment tracking infrastructure and optimizing capacity planning for autonomous science platforms.

Location: Cambridge, MA USA

Salary: $120,000 - $192,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is building autonomous science platforms and an AI Science Factory to accelerate discovery across medicine, materials, and energy.

What you will do

• Design and maintain a low-fidelity discrete event simulation platform for lab workflows, instrument states, and robotic transport.
• Architect the platform to allow production scheduling and fleet coordination code to run with minimal changes.
• Build infrastructure for experiment tracking and reproducibility, ensuring every run is logged and versioned.
• Develop tooling for parameter sweeps, scheduler benchmarks, and capacity planning.
• Partner with Scheduling and Robotics teams to validate new coordination strategies.
• Ship clean, well-documented simulation APIs for internal use.

Requirements

• 1-3 years of hands-on experience in simulation engineering, operations research, or a related field.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, CI/CD, and API design.
• Deep understanding of experiment reproducibility (seeding, versioning, logging).
• Solid grasp of system modeling concepts such as queuing, resource contention, and stochastic behavior.
• Must be based in or authorized to work in Cambridge, MA USA

Nice to have

• Practical experience with discrete event simulation tools like SimPy.
• Experience in robotics, warehousing, or logistics environments.
• Familiarity with scheduling algorithms (greedy dispatching, constraint-based approaches).
• Experience with experiment tracking platforms such as MLflow or Weights & Biases.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive base compensation with bonus potential.
• Generous early-stage equity.
• Environment driven by values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity.
• Comprehensive U.S. and International benefits packages.