Robotics Perception & State Estimation Engineer (Humanoid Robotics)

Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Company

hirify.global develops humanoid robots and the software and hardware systems that enable them to understand and interact with the physical world.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and deploy production-grade perception systems for humanoid robots used in navigation, manipulation, safety, and human-robot interaction.
• Architect real-time perception software stacks covering sensor acquisition, calibration, localization, scene understanding, and world modeling.
• Develop SLAM, mapping, localization, sensor fusion, and state estimation systems for dynamic real-world environments.
• Integrate, calibrate, and synchronize cameras, stereo and depth sensors, LiDAR, IMUs, force/torque sensors, and joint encoders.
• Build and maintain ROS2, DDS, and Zenoh-based data pipelines, including communication, timing, synchronization, and coordinate-frame management.
• Validate and benchmark perception systems in simulation and on physical humanoid robots while collaborating with controls, manipulation, planning, and platform teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of professional experience building and deploying complex robotic perception systems.
• Experience owning perception-stack components such as sensor integration, calibration, localization, mapping, sensor fusion, state estimation, or real-world deployment.
• Hands-on experience with visual, LiDAR, or visual-inertial SLAM; localization and mapping; sensor fusion; factor graph optimization; or EKF/UKF-based systems.
• Strong understanding of ROS2, DDS, distributed robotic systems, high-throughput sensor pipelines, synchronization, timing, and TF coordinate-frame management.
• Strong modern C++ skills, including C++17/20, multithreaded systems, performance optimization, and production-quality software development.

Nice to have

• Experience with perception for humanoids, manipulation, or autonomous robots.
• GPU acceleration, embedded robotics systems, or NVIDIA Jetson platforms.
• Deep learning for perception with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience with PCL, OpenCV, IsaacSim, MuJoCo, Gazebo, or MLOps.

Culture & Benefits

• Work at the intersection of perception, state estimation, robotics software infrastructure, and system integration.
• Contribute directly to real robotic platforms and real-world humanoid robot behavior.
• Drive the long-term technical direction of perception architecture, software quality, testing, maintainability, and scalability.