C++ Systems Engineer (Robotics)

Location: San Carlos, California, United States; on-site

Salary: $200,000–$280,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds humanoid robots designed to operate safely alongside people in homes and warehouses.

What you will do

• Own and improve real-time C++ infrastructure for sensor pipelines, motor control interfaces, and deterministic scheduling.
• Build benchmarking, flamegraph, profiling, and regression-tracking tooling for latency and throughput.
• Develop IPC and serialization layers using lock-free queues, memory pools, and shared-memory buffers.
• Design foundational libraries and clean interfaces used by perception, planning, and controls teams.
• Ship reliable systems software running on thousands of physical robots.

Requirements

• 5+ years of production C++ experience in performance-critical systems such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, game engines, operating systems, compilers, HFT, or HPC.
• Strong Linux and systems knowledge, including toolchains, ABI, kernel interfaces, cross-compilation, profiling, tracing, performance counters, and assembly inspection.
• Experience designing systems with clear interfaces, minimal dependencies, and deterministic behavior under load.
• Experience with real-time or safety-critical systems where latency guarantees and failure modes have physical consequences.
• Familiarity with lock-free data structures, memory pools, shared-memory IPC, cross-compilation toolchains, and embedded Linux targets.
• Background in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other physical systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Builder-focused environment with ownership, direct communication, and high engineering standards.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match, plus FSA and HSA options.
• Disability, life insurance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program.
• On-site snacks and catered lunches.