Robot Perception Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Mountain View, United States

Salary: $175K–$280K plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops generalist intelligent humanoid robots across the full robotics stack, including hardware, robot systems, foundation world models, infrastructure, and manufacturing.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain real-time perception pipelines for humanoid robot platforms.
• Integrate and calibrate cameras, LiDAR, IMUs, and depth sensors.
• Build and optimize object detection, tracking, and scene understanding systems for complex environments.
• Own low-latency streaming infrastructure connecting sensor data to foundation models, teleoperation systems, and onboard control stacks.
• Implement and validate safety-certified perception components, including collision avoidance.
• Support hardware bring-up, field testing, fault detection, recovery logic, and system reliability.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in robotics perception, computer vision, or a related field.
• Strong software engineering skills in C++, Python, or Rust.
• Hands-on experience with sensor integration and calibration.
• Experience building real-time perception pipelines on embedded or edge platforms.
• Familiarity with streaming and networking systems for low-latency sensor data transport.
• Experience with ROS, ROS2, or similar robotics middleware and the ability to debug from sensor drivers through live perception behavior.

Nice to have

• Experience with safety-critical systems and standards such as ISO 26262 or IEC 61508.
• Background in multi-sensor fusion, teleoperation, or humanoid and legged robots.
• Experience optimizing perception models on edge hardware using quantization or TensorRT.
• Experience with prototype or pre-production hardware programs.

Culture & Benefits

• High ownership in a small, fast-moving team.
• Work at the intersection of hardware, AI, and real robotic systems.
• Contributions directly shape how humanoid robots perceive, navigate, and safely interact with the real world.
• Compensation includes equity.