Senior Planning Research Scientist (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Singapore

Company

hirify.global develops safe-speed autonomous logistics systems and fleet-level technologies for goods transportation.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain high-performance route and motion planning modules in modern C++ for real-time autonomous driving.
• Profile and optimize algorithms for runtime efficiency, memory usage, and latency.
• Integrate planning modules with perception, prediction, localization, and control systems.
• Simulate and validate planning algorithms on autonomous platforms and in real-world environments.
• Debug multi-module systems, analyze logs and telemetry, and support deployment.
• Collaborate with engineers and researchers, share system design practices, and mentor junior developers.

Requirements

• Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong C++ proficiency and knowledge of object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and real-time software design.
• Experience with graph search, sampling-based planning, optimization-based methods, FSMs, and behavior trees.
• Experience optimizing software for real-time performance and resource constraints.
• Hands-on experience developing large-scale robotic or autonomous systems.
• Proficiency with Linux, ROS or ROS2, Git, CMake or Bazel, and CI/CD pipelines, plus experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with an international engineering and research team focused on autonomous logistics.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary autonomy teams.
• Contribute to systems deployed at industrial and logistics sites in Asia.