Camera Systems Software Engineer (Robotics)

Location: San Mateo, California, United States

Base salary: $100,000–$300,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global is developing general-purpose robotic intelligence that adapts to unseen scenarios through data-driven machine learning.

What you will do

• Own the camera lifecycle from vendor requirements and sensor selection through hardware bring-up, integration, calibration, validation, and maintenance.
• Define custom camera requirements with hardware partners, including optics, frame rates, exposure, synchronization, timestamping, calibration, thermal constraints, and image quality.
• Develop and maintain camera drivers, sensor configurations, device-tree changes, capture-path validation, timestamp handling, metadata handling, and control interfaces.
• Debug MIPI CSI-2, GMSL, FPD-Link, I2C, power and clock sequencing, dropped frames, bandwidth limits, corrupted images, ISP behavior, and sensor modes.
• Design low-latency camera pipelines and reliable APIs for frames, timestamps, metadata, calibration, diagnostics, and health data used by perception, autonomy, logging, and product software.
• Collaborate with perception, robotics, embedded systems, electrical engineering, and external hardware partners to deliver a production-ready camera stack.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with embedded camera systems, sensor bring-up, camera module integration, driver debugging, and board-level validation.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Strong C/C++ experience for Linux or performance-sensitive systems, including multithreading, memory management, profiling, and low-latency design.
• Experience with Linux camera drivers, device trees, V4L2, media controller graphs, and camera interfaces such as MIPI CSI-2, I2C, GMSL, or FPD-Link.
• Understanding of timestamping, synchronization, buffering, scheduling, latency, jitter, deterministic delivery, image sensors, imaging formats, HDR, exposure and gain control, white balance, and ISP behavior.
• Experience with debugging tools including kernel logs, tracing, profiling, oscilloscopes or logic analyzers, long-duration test scripts, and capture validation tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on general-purpose robotic intelligence intended for widespread deployment.
• Collaborate across software, robotics, embedded systems, electrical engineering, perception, and hardware partnerships.
• Contribute to technically complex systems combining camera hardware, real-time software, calibration, synchronization, and machine learning.