Embedded Software Engineer (Perception)

Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

Salary: $154,000–$212,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles designed to make freight transportation cleaner, safer, and more efficient.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain drivers, kernel modules, and firmware for embedded Linux systems on ARM and NVIDIA Jetson/Tegra platforms.
• Write low-level systems software in Rust and C++ from board bring-up through production hardening.
• Build and optimize capture pipelines, buffer management, and data integrity for high-throughput cameras, lidars, and IMUs.
• Improve real-time sensing performance by reducing latency and jitter, preventing dropped frames, and maintaining deterministic multi-sensor timing.
• Test sensor configuration changes across firmware and sensor revisions under varied conditions.
• Profile and optimize NVIDIA GPU and kernel performance using CUDA, TensorRT, scheduling, and memory/I/O techniques.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in embedded, firmware, or systems software engineering; recent graduates are excluded.
• Strong knowledge of Linux internals and driver development on ARM-based platforms.
• Proficiency in Rust and C++ for systems-level programming.
• Experience with NVIDIA Jetson/Tegra platforms and high-throughput sensor drivers, including data capture, buffering, and timestamp synchronization.
• Ability to debug across the hardware/software boundary using device trees, kernel logs, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers, while collaborating across disciplines.

Nice to have

• GPU and kernel-level optimization experience with CUDA and TensorRT.
• Experience with Yocto-based builds, V4L2, GStreamer, or MIPI CSI-2 camera stacks.
• Background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or safety-critical systems.
• Familiarity with ROS2, sensor fusion, SLAM, and real-time perception streaming pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles and real-time perception systems for freight transportation.
• Collaborate with embedded platform engineers and interdisciplinary teams.
• Inclusive workplace with equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation support.
• Compensation is determined based on skills, experience, qualifications, and location.