UX Designer (Robotics)

Location: Cambridge, MA, United States; onsite role

Company

hirify.global builds general-purpose robots that work alongside people in homes, workplaces, factories, farms, and other environments.

What you will do

• Design immersive VR interfaces that help operators understand robot behavior and direct robots confidently and comfortably.
• Own end-to-end service design across people, robots, tools, workflows, and operational handoffs.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations to implement and deploy high-quality interfaces.
• Conduct discovery and usability testing with operations users, then iterate designs based on findings.
• Help establish the design practice, including craft standards, design systems, and team culture.

Requirements

• Portfolio demonstrating strong interaction and visual design craft in complex, data-rich, or real-time experiences.
• Strong systems and service thinking across multiple touchpoints and handoffs.
• Ability to independently run discovery and usability testing and translate findings into design decisions.
• Experience moving from ambiguous problems to shipped solutions with significant autonomy.
• Strong prototyping skills using Figma, low-fidelity mockups, code, or similar methods.
• Expertise or interest in human factors and human-robot interaction, including latency, presence, situational awareness, operator trust, and fatigue.

Nice to have

• Experience designing VR, AR, spatial, or 3D interfaces, including interaction, comfort, and ergonomic considerations for head-mounted displays.
• Experience in robotics or gaming.
• Familiarity with Unity, Unreal, or other 3D/XR design tools.
• Experience building and maintaining design systems.
• Comfort using AI and agentic tools to improve design work.

Culture & Benefits

• High-ownership role as an early member of a growing design team.
• Competitive salary, annual cash bonus, and company equity.
• Company-subsidized insurance programs and a 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible paid time off and daily lunch.
• Collaborative environment focused on technical excellence, creative vision, humility, and hands-on building.

Hiring process

• Employment authorization is verified through E-Verify after joining.