Perception Engineer (Robotics)

Location: On-site at Robot Ranch in Austin, Texas; relocation to Austin is required if outside commuting distance.

Company

hirify.global develops automated heavy machinery and robotics to make construction faster, cheaper, and safer.

What you will do

• Design and implement perception systems for automated heavy machinery operating in complex, unstructured environments.
• Integrate, calibrate, and test multi-spectral, TOF, camera, and other sensors in prototype and production robotic systems.
• Build real-time pipelines for processing, sharing, and fusing images, point clouds, and other high-bandwidth sensor data.
• Develop object-detection algorithms supporting collision avoidance, motion planning, trajectory planning, and localization.
• Create simulation and visualization tools for robotic software, control algorithms, and operator interfaces.
• Lead interdisciplinary teams, mentor employees, contribute to hiring, and support urgent deployment issues.

Requirements

• B.S. in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field.
• 2+ years of professional or project experience developing robotic software, real-time algorithms, and perception data-processing pipelines.
• Experience owning large-scale deliverables, leading teams, and driving product roadmaps.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python for Linux-based systems and bare-metal microcontrollers.
• Experience training, testing, optimizing, and deploying machine-learning models using existing and custom datasets.
• Willingness to work extended hours or weekends when needed for critical deadlines and urgent deployment triage.

Nice to have

• Experience with safety-critical or real-time systems and embedded robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, automotive, or construction applications.
• Experience implementing robotic or feedback-control algorithms from scratch.
• Experience with object detection using multi-spectral images and point clouds.
• FPGA programming for high-throughput networking, compression, or DSP.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced startup environment focused on construction automation and infrastructure.
• Equity is included in the total compensation package.
• Relocation packages are available to help cover moving costs.
• Work includes hands-on hardware integration and field testing.