Research Robotics/Computer Vision Engineer

Location: San Mateo, California, United States

Base salary: $250,000–$300,000 USD per year

Company

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

What you will do

• Implement robot perception for safe exploration and autonomous navigation in collaboration with the locomotion team.
• Reconstruct 3D scenes from monocular images, estimate camera poses, and optimize 3D SLAM systems.
• Develop visual localization tools and robust lifelong mapping using merged pose graphs.
• Use visual servoing to control robot motion around detected and tracked objects.
• Research techniques for handling glare and limited viewpoints in robotic mapping and navigation.
• Build data infrastructure for streaming hand movements to train robot manipulation tasks and maintain camera- and 2D lidar-based navigation deployments.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Vision, Robotics, or a directly related discipline.
• At least one year of experience in Machine Learning or Data Science; concurrent experience is accepted.
• Experience reconstructing 3D scenes and rigid or articulated hand-held objects from videos using meshes, point clouds, Neural Radiance Fields, and Gaussian Splats.
• Knowledge of generative computer vision, including diffusion models, data-driven priors, occlusion handling, and limited-view reconstruction.
• Experience optimizing attention-based perception models and using Neural Architectural Search for autonomous navigation systems.
• Experience with cloud-based distributed deep learning training in AWS, Google Cloud, or Vertex AI, including optimized data loading and hardware-in-the-loop workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on general-purpose robotic intelligence intended for broad real-world deployment.
• Collaborate across robotics, locomotion, perception, and manipulation domains.
• Contribute to innovative research and engineering projects in an environment welcoming varied experience levels.