XR Experience Engineer

Location: Cambridge, MA, United States

Company

hirify.global is building general-purpose robots intended to improve quality of life across homes, workplaces, factories, farms, and other environments.

What you will do

• Design and build spatial UI for robot status, policy state, uncertainty, safety, calibration, and operator session flows.
• Develop shared-autonomy takeover and handback experiences in collaboration with AI and teleoperation engineers.
• Build comfort, sickness-mitigation, situational-awareness, spatial-audio, and push-to-talk features for long headset sessions.
• Prototype interaction concepts directly in the real-time engine and move validated ideas into the production runtime.
• Build telemetry, run structured operator studies, and convert qualitative and quantitative findings into shipped improvements.
• Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, support field diagnosis, manage headset settings, and help sign off releases.

Requirements

• Shipped VR or AR experiences while building the interaction and UI directly.
• Strong Unity and C#, Unreal, or equivalent real-time 3D engine skills for standalone headsets.
• Working knowledge of VR comfort, vergence-accommodation, locomotion, latency-induced sickness, and spatial UI legibility.
• Experience running user sessions and applying feedback to design decisions.
• Ability to collaborate across robotics, AI, graphics, and teleoperation engineering.
• Experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot.

Nice to have

• Experience with teleoperation, remote-operation consoles, or other high-workload interfaces.
• OpenXR, hand tracking, eye tracking, HCI, human factors, cognitive-load measurement, or haptic feedback experience.
• Spatial audio and automated testing for XR or game applications.
• Experience managing headset fleets with tools such as ManageXR.

Culture & Benefits

• Salary-based full-time employment with annual cash bonus and company equity.
• Company-subsidized insurance programs and a 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible PTO and daily lunch.
• Collaborative work across robotics, AI, graphics, teleoperation, release, and infrastructure engineering.
• Employment authorization is verified through E-Verify after hiring.