Robotics Software Engineer

Location: Palo Alto, United States; work arrangement: on-site

Company

hirify.global develops generalized physical AI and robotic systems for dexterous, adaptive work in real-world industrial environments, starting with factory-floor deployment.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain runtime systems for reliable, low-latency operation of robotic platforms.
• Build and optimize robotics middleware for inter-process communication, data serialization, and message passing using DDS, Zenoh, ROS2, or custom solutions.
• Develop task scheduling, resource management, lifecycle management, and modular execution systems for complex robotic behaviors.
• Optimize robotics software for real-time constraints, reliability, performance-critical workloads, and resource-constrained embedded environments.
• Build monitoring, debugging, performance-analysis, deployment, CI/CD, containerization, API, and developer-experience tools.
• Contribute to operator-facing interfaces for robot monitoring, control, and data annotation workflows.

Requirements

• Strong experience building robotics software systems, runtime systems, execution frameworks, or middleware layers.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and communication patterns in robotics.
• Experience working with real-time constraints and performance-critical systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Familiarity with DDS, Zenoh, or ROS2, plus experience with containerization, CI/CD, and large-scale codebase management.
• Ability to design clean abstractions and APIs and build tools or interfaces for operators and engineers.

Nice to have

• Background in building operator tools or robotics UIs.
• Experience supporting ML-driven robotic systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work with physical robotic systems in real-world industrial environments.
• Ownership of difficult robotics and physical AI problems.
• Focus on developer experience, system ergonomics, and scalable platform design.