Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Localization (Visual Odometry)

Location: Onsite 5 days per week at the Santa Clara, CA office

Salary: $170,000–$260,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops Level 4 autonomous transportation technology for short-haul, B2B middle-mile logistics, including autonomous trucks and integrated software and hardware systems.

What you will do

• Design and develop real-time Visual Odometry pipelines using monocular, stereo, or RGB-D cameras.
• Implement camera-based localization algorithms, including visual-inertial odometry, feature tracking, motion estimation, and scale recovery.
• Fuse camera data with IMU, GPS, lidar, and other sensors to improve pose estimation accuracy and stability.
• Integrate localization with mapping, perception, control, and the broader autonomous vehicle software stack.
• Develop and optimize production-quality modern C++ software for real-time embedded compute platforms.
• Analyze performance in varied environmental conditions, contribute to architecture and code reviews, and mentor team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in robotics, computer vision, or autonomy, including 3+ years specifically in Visual Odometry or VIO.
• Experience developing, testing, or deploying autonomous vehicle systems.
• Expert proficiency in C++ and modern software engineering practices.
• Strong knowledge of epipolar geometry, camera calibration, bundle adjustment, and optimization techniques.
• Hands-on experience with VO/SLAM libraries such as ORB-SLAM, VINS-Fusion, or OpenVINS, plus ROS/ROS2, Linux, and version control systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with lidar or map-based localization, GPU acceleration using CUDA/OpenCV/OpenGL, sensor calibration, time synchronization, and data preprocessing.
• Experience handling environmental variability, sensor degradation, and compute limitations in production deployments.
• Open-source contributions or publications in VO, VIO, or SLAM.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, respectful, and agile working culture.
• Focus on diversity, inclusion, professional growth, and equal opportunity.
• Opportunity to contribute to autonomous transportation and supply-chain sustainability.