Senior Autonomy Engineer (Robotics)

TL;DR

Senior Autonomy Engineer (Robotics): Building and maintaining the systems, pipelines, and tooling for the perception stack of autonomous vehicles with an accent on CI/CD infrastructure and inference optimization. Focus on improving model reliability within real-time latency budgets and developing heuristic perception methods for scene understanding.

Location: Ann Arbor, MI

Salary: $1 - $2 USD

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous vehicles and shuttle services to create safer, greener, and more accessible urban transit.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for the perception stack, including automated builds, unit/integration testing, and deployment workflows.
• Build developer tooling and infrastructure, such as build scripts, test harnesses, and simulation/visualization utilities.
• Optimize the inference pipeline to ensure models run reliably within real-time latency budgets on-vehicle.
• Implement and tune heuristic perception methods based on geometric reasoning and signal processing as deterministic fallbacks.
• Write industrial-grade production code and support ML pipelines for model training and evaluation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to diagnose issues and validate features for release schedules.

Requirements

• 1–3 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
• Proficiency in C++ and/or Python and comfort working in a Linux environment.
• Experience with version control (Git) and a fundamental understanding of CI/CD basics.
• Solid software engineering foundations in data structures, algorithms, and writing testable code.

Nice to have

• Exposure to build tools (CMake, Bazel) and containerization (Docker).
• Knowledge of computer vision, multi-target tracking, or sensor fusion concepts.
• Basic familiarity with ML/DL frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Interest in safety-critical systems and graceful-degradation strategies.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare suite including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans.
• Retirement benefits with an immediately vested employer safe harbor match.
• Generous paid parental leave and a phased return-to-work program.
• Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays.
• Total Wellness Program providing resources for overall employee wellbeing.