Runtime Software Engineer (Robotics)

Location: San Francisco, United States; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops foundation models and learning algorithms that enable robots and physically actuated devices to operate in the real world.

What you will do

• Engineer low-latency, reliable sensor and actuator pipelines across Linux, drivers, and middleware.
• Profile and optimize compute, I/O, memory, scheduling, networking, storage, and GPU/CPU workloads to meet real-time constraints.
• Extend or modify Linux components, drivers, and scheduling mechanisms for deterministic behavior under load.
• 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 robotics operators to integrate optimized pipelines into production workflows.

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in C++, Rust, or Python and experience building and optimizing production software.
• Linux systems programming experience, including system calls, drivers, kernel parameters, scheduling, and memory/I/O subsystems.
• 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 kernel scheduling, drivers, networking, GPU/CPU workloads, video frameworks, and distributed components.
• Experience with profiling and debugging tools such as perf, tracing, eBPF, GPU profilers, or network analyzers.
• Strong understanding of determinism, throughput, frame budgets, jitter minimization, and real-time correctness.

Nice to have

• Experience with VR/AR platforms, low-latency 3D engines, camera synchronization, capture pipelines, codecs, or GPU offload.
• Experience with WebRTC, real-time transport optimization, robotics, autonomous systems, SLAM, or perception-system implementation.
• Expertise in kernel-level engineering, device drivers, high-performance networking, or distributed systems processing real-time data flows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work closely with engineers, scientists, roboticists, researchers, and robotics operators.
• Build runtime infrastructure used by robots, sensors, and evaluation pipelines.
• Work on real-world systems requiring strict latency, reliability, and performance guarantees.