Lead Robotics Engineer

Location: Onsite in Irving, Texas, United States, five days per week. Domestic relocation assistance is available. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $128,470–$208,770 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops heavy equipment and technology solutions combining physical systems, connectivity, autonomy, edge computing, and artificial intelligence.

What you will do

• Design, build, test, and ship autonomy components across perception, planning, control, and learning.
• Own robotics components end-to-end, from ideas and prototypes through production deployment on real hardware.
• Participate in robotics software test reviews, analysis, witnessing, and certification.
• Contribute across the autonomy stack while providing deep expertise in at least one technical domain.
• Deploy and validate robotics software on off-road machines and real customer sites.
• Collaborate in small, outcome-owning engineering pods.

Requirements

• Typically 8+ years of related engineering experience.
• Strong robotics generalist skills across the autonomy stack.
• Expertise in at least one area: AI, motion planning, perception, controls, or SLAM.
• Production-quality C++ and Python programming.
• Experience with ROS or a similar robotics framework in real systems.
• Full-lifecycle robotics product experience, including simulation and on-vehicle deployment.

Nice to have

• Experience with field robotics or autonomous vehicles, especially off-road systems.
• Learning-based control or perception, foundation models, or VLA-style models.
• MLOps and machine-learning training infrastructure experience.
• Pragmatic, first-principles engineering approach with strong end-to-end ownership.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Paid vacation, holidays, and volunteer time.
• 401(k), HSA, and FSA plans.
• Career development, tuition reimbursement, and incentive bonus opportunities.
• Life, disability, and parental leave benefits.
• Employee assistance programs, voluntary benefits, and employee discounts.