Robotics Software Engineer – Robot Integrations

Location: Irvine, California, United States; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops intelligent and adaptable robotic systems for rugged terrain and real-world deployment.

What you will do

• Bring up and integrate new legged, wheeled-legged, wheeled, and humanoid robotic platforms into the software stack.
• Develop and maintain robot drivers and interfaces covering sensing, state, commands, actuation, and control.
• Build software components for calibration, timing, diagnostics, observability, and reliable communication between onboard compute, sensors, actuators, and autonomy software.
• Debug issues across software, networking, hardware communication, and system configuration boundaries.
• Profile end-to-end performance, analyze telemetry, and tune control strategies to improve stability, responsiveness, motion quality, and controllability.
• Collaborate with hardware and software platform teams on robot bring-up, validation, deployment tooling, testing, and long-term platform support.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, or a bachelor’s degree with relevant hands-on robotic systems experience.
• Strong software engineering skills in C++ and/or Python in Linux-based environments.
• Hands-on experience with real robotic systems and integration or debugging of one or more robotic platforms.
• Familiarity with ROS, ROS 2, or similar distributed robotics middleware.
• Understanding of sensing, state estimation, actuation, and control interfaces.
• Ability to debug networking, timing, hardware communication, software integration, electronics, and mechanical interface issues.

Nice to have

• Experience with robot drivers, SDK integrations, or hardware abstraction layers.
• Knowledge of CAN, EtherCAT, serial, UDP/TCP, or similar communication protocols.
• Experience with control tuning, performance profiling, calibration, synchronization, diagnostics, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or regression pipelines.
• Experience supporting robot bring-up from early integration through production-quality reliability.

Culture & Benefits

• Work directly with physical robots in laboratory and field environments.
• Collaborate across robotics software, hardware, and platform teams.
• Contribute to systems deployed in real-world conditions, including rugged terrain.
• Join a robotics organization with experience in field deployments and DARPA challenge work.