Robotics Engineer I (Robotics)

Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States of America; onsite robotics laboratory work

Base pay range for Washington applicants: $110,623.00–$154,871.85 per year. Other site ranges may differ.

Company

hirify.global develops reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems to support future human activity in space.

What you will do

• Develop, train, fine-tune, and evaluate robot manipulation policies for multi-step tasks, including imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and vision-language-action models.
• Collect teleoperation demonstrations and build data pipelines for policy training and benchmarking.
• Build simulation environments in NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, and Isaac Lab, including terrain, lighting, and physical conditions, while closing the sim-to-real gap.
• Integrate, bring up, and operate robot arms, dexterous hands, grippers, cameras, force/torque sensors, and commercial platforms.
• Develop and maintain ROS 2 control interfaces, perception pipelines, and robot safety limits.
• Run analyses, simulations, and prototype tests supporting trade studies across mobility, power, thermal, compute, and communications, and communicate results to stakeholders.

Requirements

• B.S. degree in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience with real robot hardware and at least one robotics simulation environment.
• Proficiency in Python and working knowledge of C++.
• Understanding of robot kinematics, dynamics, and control fundamentals.
• Ability to assemble hardware, wire and debug sensors, and safely operate robots in a laboratory.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident with a current Green Card, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Nice to have

• M.S. degree or equivalent research experience.
• Experience with PyTorch or JAX, learned robot policies, ROS 2, NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, or Isaac Lab.
• Experience with industrial or collaborative robot arms, physics-based terrain or contact modeling, and computer vision for manipulation.
• Experience with teleoperation systems, robot-learning data collection, or hardware for harsh environments.
• Experience working across software, simulation, and hardware.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety, collaboration, inclusion, trust, equality, and teamwork are emphasized.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid parental leave, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) with company matching of up to 5% and an Education Support Program.
• Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
• Up to four weeks of paid time off and up to 14 company-paid holidays.