Staff Software Engineer (Robotics)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Robotics): Architecting and building production-quality teleoperation systems for humanoid robots with an accent on low-latency communication, real-time control, and scalable human-robot interfaces. Focus on designing robust validation strategies and optimizing whole-body manipulation performance for large-scale robot fleet deployment.

Location: Must be based in or able to work from Fremont, CA, Salem, OR, or Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid)

Salary: $222,000–$346,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is a leader in humanoid robotics, developing commercially deployed robots for warehouses and manufacturing to enhance human potential.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end architecture of the teleoperation system, ensuring low latency and predictable robot behavior.
• Integrate and optimize real-time control, streaming, and communication paths.
• Design scalable interfaces for VR, motion capture, and other operator modalities.
• Develop comprehensive validation strategies, including performance benchmarks and regression testing.
• Analyze demonstration data to improve operator efficiency and system responsiveness.
• Adapt system architecture to support evolving robot hardware and sensor capabilities.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in robotics or real-time systems.
• Must have current authorization to work in the United States.
• Deep understanding of real-time control, motion retargeting, and rigid body dynamics.
• Experience designing low-latency communication and streaming systems.
• Strong systems intuition for tracing performance issues across software and hardware.
• Hands-on experience integrating human input systems like VR or motion capture.

Nice to have

• Experience with real-time rendering or XR frameworks (Unity, Unreal, Godot, SteamVR).
• Familiarity with 3D visualization techniques like neural radiance fields or Gaussian splatting.
• Experience with large-scale data collection pipelines for learning from demonstration.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive total rewards including 401(k) with 6% match and equity options.
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance.
• Flexible, unlimited PTO for exempt employees plus 12 company holidays.
• Generous paid parental leave and professional development support.
• On-site perks including catered lunches four times a week.