GNC Engineer, Tracking Level 2 (Embedded Autonomous Systems)

Location: Onsite in Gardena, California, United States. ITAR eligibility is required: U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Company

hirify.global is a stealth-mode aerospace and defense startup developing missile defense systems and autonomous technologies.

What you will do

• Design and implement real-time tracking and state estimation algorithms for airborne and autonomous systems.
• Develop multi-target tracking pipelines using camera, IMU, EO/IR, and other heterogeneous sensor inputs.
• Implement filtering, sensor fusion, track management, data association, occlusion handling, and confidence scoring.
• Interface tracking systems with computer vision detectors and optimize pipelines for NVIDIA Jetson-class embedded platforms.
• Build low-latency C++ software, simulation and replay environments, and estimator validation tools for operational deployment.
• Collaborate with guidance, autonomy, perception, and controls engineers while analyzing stability, observability, and numerical robustness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, applied mathematics, physics, or a related field.
• Strong experience with state estimation, tracking, or sensor fusion systems and strong C++ software engineering experience.
• Experience developing real-time systems on Linux and understanding linear algebra, probability and statistics, coordinate transformations, kinematics, dynamics, and numerical methods.
• Experience with multi-object tracking, visual-inertial estimation, SLAM, radar tracking, EO/IR tracking, or guidance and navigation systems.
• Experience consuming outputs from TensorRT, DeepStream, OpenCV, or PyTorch/TensorRT inference pipelines and debugging noisy real-world sensor systems.
• Must meet applicable U.S. ITAR eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience with Jetson Xavier, Jetson Orin, CUDA, embedded GPU platforms, or GPU-accelerated vision pipelines.
• Knowledge of Bayesian filtering, multi-hypothesis tracking, JPDA/MHT, optical flow, or visual odometry.
• Familiarity with ROS2, GStreamer, DeepStream, hardware interfaces, simulation environments, or hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Experience with high-rate telemetry, distributed real-time systems, aerospace, defense, autonomous systems, flight software, or tactical networking.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package.
• High ownership and technical autonomy in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Work with advanced autonomous systems, embedded compute, and sensing hardware.
• Direct technical impact on life-saving defense systems.