Robotics & AI Systems Development Engineer II

Location: Corp-Main - Diamond Bar, California, United States; estimated travel of 20–40% for deployment and plant support

Salary: $100,464.14–$145,673.02 yearly

Company

hirify.global manufactures bottled water and develops automation solutions for its manufacturing operations.

What you will do

• Design, program, and deploy control systems, autonomous inspection routines, navigation logic, and mission orchestration for quadruped and humanoid robots.
• Integrate thermal, acoustic, vibration, LiDAR, and vision sensors for real-time anomaly detection in active manufacturing environments.
• Architect a scalable fleet management platform covering mission scheduling, battery optimization, health monitoring, alerting, and cloud-edge synchronization.
• Integrate robotic data with CMMS, ticketing, historian, analytics, PLC/SCADA, and industrial communication systems.
• Develop AI agents, time-series anomaly detection models, LLM-enabled operator assistants, and predictive, prescriptive, and condition-based maintenance solutions.
• Present technical roadmaps, communicate business value and ROI, and support pilot deployments and enterprise-scale rollouts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field.
• 3–6 years of experience in robotics systems, AI engineering, or industrial automation, including real-world production deployments.
• Proficiency with ROS2 or equivalent robotics frameworks and strong Python and/or C++ programming skills.
• Experience with motion planning, SLAM, perception pipelines, computer vision, machine learning models, and time-series modeling.
• Knowledge of LLM integration, embeddings, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented architectures, MLOps, CI/CD, and model versioning.
• Understanding of PLC/SCADA platforms, OPC-UA, MQTT, Modbus, TCP/IP, edge-to-cloud integration, manufacturing data environments, and asset monitoring systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with opportunities to make an impact and build a long-term career.
• Paid holidays, sick time, vacation, parental leave, and caregiver leave.
• Medical, dental, vision, virtual care, HSA, FSA, and 401(k) with company match.
• Mental wellbeing, family-building, income protection, and special discount programs.
• Tuition reimbursement, college savings, and scholarship opportunities.