Robotics Systems Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: San Francisco, CA; onsite five days a week. Periodic travel to customer sites of up to 10% is required, with some schedule flexibility during deployments.

Base salary: $145,000–$180,000 per year, plus potential equity awards.

Company

hirify.global builds Physical AI and real-world robotic systems for food, mining, transport, and other industrial operations.

What you will do

• Develop, integrate, test, and validate autonomy features for autonomous trucks.
• Debug issues across sensors, compute, networking, controls, and software stacks using logs, metrics, and on-vehicle tools.
• Lead technical execution during deployments, including bring-up plans, risk identification, requirements communication, and coordination of fixes.
• Bring up and integrate new truck platforms, including sensor and vehicle-signal integration, calibration, and performance tuning.
• Support customer-site field deployments and hands-on on-vehicle debugging in mission-critical environments.
• Collaborate with hardware, operations, safety, and product teams to deliver robust and maintainable autonomy behavior.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional software development experience, excluding internships.
• Strong programming skills in at least one of Python, C++, Java, or C#, with object-oriented design experience.
• Professional robotics engineering experience with system-level ownership, integration, debugging, performance tuning, field support, or deployments.
• Knowledge of robotics concepts and mathematics, including state estimation, Kalman filtering, localization, planning, and controls.
• Ability to design diagnosable, testable software systems using structured logging, metrics, and fault isolation.
• Experience with field deployment, safety-critical troubleshooting, customer-site support, or deployment rotations; familiarity with Linux, Git, CI/CD, simulation, and test harnesses.

Nice to have

• Experience with sensor fusion, safety systems, camera pipelines, ML for perception, CAN vehicle interfaces, or calibration workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on Physical AI and automation for real-world industrial applications.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options, 401(k), and equity.
• Sick time, unlimited flexible time off, paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits and team lunch at the SoMa office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.