Robotics Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, United States; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops general-purpose AI foundation models and learning algorithms for robots and physically actuated devices.

What you will do

• Design comfortable and precise remote teleoperation interfaces for robots with many degrees of freedom.
• Optimize network performance and teleoperation systems for low latency, including operation in weak internet conditions.
• Profile and optimize compute, I/O, memory, scheduling, networking, and storage to meet real-time constraints and improve throughput.
• Develop and optimize real-time video streaming systems, including frame timing and packet scheduling.
• Build profiling, tracing, and debugging tools for timing issues across distributed systems and hardware interfaces.
• Collaborate with researchers, hardware engineers, platform engineers, and robot operators to integrate optimized pipelines into production workflows.

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in C++, Rust, or Python, with experience building and optimizing production software.
• Experience with real-time or near-real-time systems, VR/AR, video pipelines, 3D engines, or streaming systems with strict latency budgets.
• Ability to optimize across drivers, networking, compute workloads, video frameworks, and distributed components.
• Experience with profiling and debugging tools such as perf, tracing, eBPF, GPU profilers, or network analyzers.
• Understanding of determinism, throughput, frame budgets, jitter minimization, and real-time correctness.
• Ability to collaborate with robot users, researchers, and platform engineers to build precise teleoperation interfaces.

Nice to have

• Experience with robot teleoperation systems, VR/AR platforms, or low-latency 3D engines.
• Camera system expertise, including synchronization, capture pipelines, codecs, or GPU offload.
• Experience with WebRTC, real-time transport optimization, streaming, or video conferencing stacks.
• Background in robotics or autonomous systems focused on implementation.
• Familiarity with distributed systems processing real-time data flows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on a full-stack robotics team solving real-world deployment problems.
• Collaborate across research, hardware, platform engineering, operations, and robot deployment functions.
• Build systems intended to be safe, observable, debuggable, and reliable in customer environments.