Robotics Software Engineer

TL;DR

Robotics Software Engineer (Python/C++): Developing production software for motion planning and control of mobile manipulator robots navigating trailers filled with varied cargo, with an accent on reliability, latency, simulation, and deployment infrastructure. Focus on designing and benchmarking planning algorithms, validating behavior through simulation CI, and debugging and tuning systems on real hardware in customer environments.

Location: Hybrid in the Boston, MA area, with regular on-site work and occasional travel to customer deployment sites.

Company

hirify.global develops robotic systems for automating trailer and warehouse handling operations.

What you will do

• Design and develop production-quality software for robot arm and mobile-base motion planning.
• Build infrastructure to run, benchmark, and deploy planning algorithms across varied fleet compute platforms.
• Partner with simulation engineers to create CI pipelines that validate planner behavior and detect regressions before deployment.
• Own features from prototyping through field deployment, including debugging and tuning on real hardware.
• Collaborate with perception, hardware, firmware, and deployment teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience in robotics, planning, and control for AMRs or mobile manipulators.
• Hands-on experience with classical motion planning or ML-based planning for real-world robots or other safety-critical, real-time systems.
• Professional fluency in English.
• Strong Python proficiency; experience with C++ is beneficial.
• Availability for regular on-site work in the Boston, MA area and occasional travel to customer deployment sites.
• Ownership mentality, comfort with ambiguity and physical hardware, intellectual curiosity, and a collaborative approach.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid work with regular on-site engineering and testing.
• Occasional schedule flexibility to support customer deployments and field testing.
• Cross-functional collaboration across software, perception, hardware, firmware, simulation, and deployment.
• Work on safety-critical robotic systems deployed in real customer environments.