Senior/Staff Engineer, C++ Software - Edge Systems (C++)

Location: On-site in Melbourne, Australia

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous systems and the software foundations that power them in demanding real-world environments.

What you will do

• Lead technical direction and influence architecture for edge software capabilities across imaging, sensor integration, mission systems, and edge computing.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain modern C++ applications for Linux and Windows edge platforms.
• Build software for NVIDIA Jetson-class, ARM64, and other constrained edge compute platforms connected to cameras, sensors, GPUs, and mission systems.
• Develop calibration, synchronization, data capture, diagnostics, inspection, configuration, developer tooling, and automated test infrastructure.
• Optimize latency, throughput, reliability, power consumption, and thermal performance, while debugging issues across software, Linux, networking, hardware interfaces, timing, deployment, and system integration.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with systems, hardware, autonomy, AI, product, and test teams from requirements through delivery.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
• Strong commercial experience developing modern C++ software for Linux and building complex user-space applications.
• Experience interfacing with cameras, sensors, networking, GPUs, storage, or other hardware through operating system APIs, middleware, or vendor SDKs.
• Strong fundamentals in concurrency, interfaces, memory management, data structures, algorithms, testing, and version control.
• Ability to diagnose complex issues across software, Linux, networking, timing, hardware integration, and deployment boundaries.
• Ability to own technical work from incomplete requirements through design, implementation, integration, verification, and delivery.

Nice to have

• Experience with performance-sensitive C++, imaging pipelines, camera integration, ISP tuning, GStreamer, FFmpeg, or OpenCV.
• Experience with NVIDIA Jetson, Qualcomm Snapdragon, CUDA, GPU compute, embedded AI accelerators, or accelerated video processing.
• Experience integrating RGB, NIR, or thermal cameras, GPS, IMUs, and comparable peripheral hardware.
• Background in robotics, aerospace, defense, autonomy, unmanned systems, automotive, or other mission-critical domains.
• Staff-level experience defining complex architectures, influencing multiple teams, mentoring senior engineers, and establishing reusable engineering platforms or standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on technical leadership is expected, including continued software development alongside mentoring and architectural ownership.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams spanning systems, hardware, autonomy, AI, product, and testing.
• Engineering work covers real hardware and operational environments rather than laboratory prototypes.
• Equal opportunity workplace with accommodations available for disabilities or special needs.