Staff Engineer, Core Platform Integration (R5411)

Location: San Diego, California; on-site

Salary: $190,000–$290,000 per year, plus bonus, benefits, and equity for full-time regular employees.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, including autonomy software, aircraft, and simulation technologies.

What you will do

• Own platform integration across SIL, HIL, VIL, and edge deployment workflows.
• Build reference workspaces, platform implementations, and tooling for development, testing, deployment, and validation.
• Integrate software across hardware, sensors, controllers, APIs, configuration, orchestration, and fleet management systems.
• Support embedded platform bring-up across developer boards, aircraft and vehicle test platforms, and reference hardware.
• Improve platform stability, API quality, developer experience, and system scalability.
• Partner with autonomy, hardware, product, and program teams to resolve integration gaps.

Requirements

• 5+ years of strong software engineering experience in robotics, autonomy, embedded systems, distributed systems, or similarly complex platforms.
• Strong experience with C++ and Python, plus developer tools, configuration systems, orchestration frameworks, or automation.
• Experience integrating and debugging software across Linux systems, hardware interfaces, deployment environments, and APIs.
• Experience using measurement or diagnostic tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or protocol analyzers.
• B.S. or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Ability to work independently and drive cross-functional integration efforts to completion.

Nice to have

• Experience with SIL, HIL, and VIL workflows for autonomy, robotics, aerospace, automotive, or defense systems.
• Experience with embedded Linux, BSP development, build systems, device trees, bootloaders, or hardware bring-up.
• Experience with edge deployment, device discovery, fleet management, OTA workflows, or remote application deployment.
• Experience with Jetson, Qualcomm, i.MX8, or similar embedded compute platforms.
• Experience integrating sensor drivers, controller and vehicle interfaces, hardware abstraction layers, or reference test platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time regular employee package includes salary within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
• Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
• Equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer.
• AI tools may support parts of the hiring process, while final decisions are made by people.