Senior Robotics Software Engineer, System Integration (AI)

Location: Boston, MA; on-site

Salary: $115,000–$170,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops risk-aware, reliable, field-ready AI and robotics systems for unstructured, real-world environments, including humanoid robot platforms.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain the software framework integrating perception, planning, locomotion, and manipulation on humanoid platforms.
• Define subsystem interfaces, communication patterns, and data contracts for modular robotic systems.
• Own system bring-up, sensor calibration, platform validation, and integration workflows across hardware and simulation.
• Convert research prototypes into tested, maintainable, production-quality software in collaboration with research engineers.
• Build integration tests, graduation pipelines, diagnostics, telemetry, monitoring, and health checks.
• Improve reliability and performance through fault handling, regression testing, hardware validation, and optimization of latency, throughput, and memory under real-time constraints.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Hands-on experience developing and integrating robotics software on physical hardware.
• Strong proficiency in C++ and Python, with modern best practices and experience working in large, multi-language codebases.
• Strong understanding of ROS/ROS2, including designing, building, and deploying nodes in complex robotic systems.
• Understanding of real-time systems, inter-process communication, and resource-constrained embedded computing environments.
• Experience hardening research or prototype code into production-quality software with testing and fault handling.
• Strong problem-solving, attention to detail, independent work, prioritization, self-motivation, work ethic, and written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with humanoid robots, legged locomotion platforms, or complex dexterous manipulation systems.
• Familiarity with motion planning, whole-body control, or contact-rich manipulation pipelines.
• Experience designing efficient, low-overhead real-time software for computationally constrained platforms.
• Background in CI/CD, automated testing, and release engineering for robotics software.
• Contributions to open-source robotics frameworks or tools.
• Experience deploying robots in unstructured environments such as construction, logistics, manufacturing, mining, or defense.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on robotics systems designed for real-world deployment and embodied intelligence.
• Collaborate with engineering and research teams in Boston, Southern California, across the United States, and globally.
• Environment emphasizing creativity, resilience, bold thinking, interdisciplinary work, and solving ambiguous technical problems.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity and merit-based evaluation.