Robotics Perception Engineer

Location: Remote within the United States, with periodic travel to the Atlanta facility for hardware integration and testing.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous robotic systems that load and unload freight trailers in demanding production environments.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain perception pipelines for autonomous mobile robots, including detection, segmentation, localization, and mapping.
• Integrate and calibrate LiDAR, depth cameras, IMUs, and other sensors on production robot platforms.
• Develop point-cloud processing, filtering, and sensor-fusion systems for reliable environment understanding.
• Create datasets for perception model training, validation, and regression testing.
• Collaborate with navigation, controls, and hardware teams to meet downstream requirements.
• Debug perception failures on deployed robots using logs, recorded sensor data, and on-site investigation, while contributing to CI/CD for testing and deployment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience building perception systems for physical robots at a robotics or autonomous vehicle company.
• Strong proficiency in C++ and Python.
• Deep experience with LiDAR processing, including point-cloud filtering, clustering, registration, and SLAM.
• Hands-on experience with camera-based perception, sensor calibration, and ROS or ROS 2 in production.
• Familiarity with PyTorch or TensorFlow and a track record of deploying perception software to real robots in unstructured or semi-structured environments.
• Strong debugging, hardware, and communication skills, with the ability to work in a small, fast-moving team.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
• Experience with AWS IoT, Greengrass, or similar edge-cloud architectures.
• Experience in logistics, warehousing, or freight environments.
• Experience with Gazebo or other physics simulation for sensor modeling.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with reliable high-speed internet and a dedicated workspace.
• Periodic travel to Atlanta for hardware integration and testing.
• Company laptop and necessary peripherals provided.
• Competitive salary and equity in an early-stage robotics company.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits, plus a permissive time-off policy.
• Direct impact on robots already operating in production.