Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities (R5339) (Robotics)

Location: San Mateo, California, United States. On-site role with approximately 10–15% travel to office locations, customer sites, and flight integration events.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomy capabilities for unmanned platforms and defense-focused real-world missions.

What you will do

• Design tactical autonomy algorithms for unmanned aircraft operating across air, land, and sea domains.
• Develop high-performance software for planning, decision-making, and behavior execution in dynamic and adversarial environments.
• Implement and test behavior architectures supporting multi-agent coordination, target engagement, reconnaissance, and survivability.
• Integrate classical autonomy, rule-based systems, optimization, machine learning, and reinforcement learning.
• Collaborate with perception, planning, simulation, hardware, and flight-test teams to integrate solutions on real platforms.
• Deploy and validate autonomy capabilities through mission-data analysis, field testing, flight demonstrations, and customer programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, electrical, mechanical, aerospace engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 5 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 4 years with a master’s degree, 2 years with a PhD, or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python, with familiarity with real-time operating systems.
• Significant experience in control systems, motion planning, optimization, tactical behaviors, distributed decision-making, or related robotics technologies.
• Experience with unmanned systems, simulation and validation environments, and troubleshooting and optimizing system performance.
• Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance or higher.

Nice to have

• Experience across multiple aerospace domains, including air, land, sea, or space.
• Experience with applied machine learning, reinforcement learning, collaborative behaviors, or swarm robotics.
• Familiarity with AFSIM, NGTS, DoD or government programs, integration events, customer demonstrations, or live exercises.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment spanning autonomy, perception, planning, simulation, hardware, and flight testing.
• Contribute to research, prototyping, capability-gap analysis, and the autonomy roadmap.
• Apply solutions to real-world platforms with near-term program impact.
• Participate in field tests, flight demonstrations, and operationally relevant validation.