Senior Robotics Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; site-based full-time with no remote work. Only U.S. persons eligible due to U.S. export-control requirements.

Salary: $145,900–$234,200 per year, plus potential discretionary bonus, incentive compensation, or equity.

Company

hirify.global develops mRNA medicines and operates a technology platform for reimagining how medicines are created and delivered.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership for robotics and automation projects supporting research discovery and high-throughput scientific workflows.
• Design system architectures spanning robotics, motion control, instrument control, scheduling, data flow, safety, and orchestration.
• Develop automation software, electronic controls, and workflows integrating robots, instruments, sensors, and data systems.
• Translate scientific and operational needs into requirements, integration plans, risk assessments, and verification strategies.
• Lead integration of robotic platforms, instruments, technologies, and automation modules into extensible architectures.
• Advise cross-functional stakeholders, mentor engineers and scientists, and improve throughput, reliability, reproducibility, and process efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with 2+ years of relevant experience in robotics, automation, systems, controls, software engineering, or a related discipline.
• Deep experience designing, integrating, and validating robotic systems, electronic controls, scientific instrumentation, and automation software.
• Strong programming skills in Python, C#, or similar languages for automation, instrument control, robotics integration, workflow orchestration, or data-driven platforms.
• Ability to convert complex laboratory and scientific workflows into scalable automated research systems with clear requirements, risk assessments, verification plans, and support models.
• Proven technical problem-solving, analytical judgment, cross-functional influence, and technical leadership.
• Must work full-time on site in Cambridge, Massachusetts; remote work is not available. Only U.S. persons may access the export-controlled work, and hirify.global cannot sponsor non-U.S. persons for an export-control license.

Nice to have

• Experience with liquid-handling robotics, collaborative or industrial robots, motion control, automation safety, and instrument integration.
• Experience with research automation, assay enablement, scientific instrumentation, or automated experimental workflows in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or academic research.
• Experience architecting modular automation systems, orchestration platforms, reusable software frameworks, or extensible robotic workcells.
• Familiarity with LNP development or other complex experimental systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Healthcare and voluntary benefit programs.
• Fitness, mindfulness, and mental-health support.
• Family-planning benefits including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
• Paid vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and discretionary year-end shutdown.
• Savings and investment programs, plus location-specific perks.