Solution Engineer (Robotics AI)

Location: Mountain View, United States; willingness to travel to domestic and international customer sites is required.

Salary: $175K–$250K per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops generalist intelligent robots across the hardware, robot systems, infrastructure, foundation world models, and manufacturing stack.

What you will do

• Translate customer requirements for throughput, uptime, safety, and acceptance criteria into production solutions.
• Conduct feasibility analysis, including simulation, and provide proposal review and feedback during the purchase-order stage.
• Design production workflows and work cells covering layout, safety, material flow, and operator interaction.
• Plan and lead integration with customer environments, including sensors, conveyors, PLCs, MES, and other plant systems.
• Integrate Rhoda's AI model with task-related tooling, partner with Application Engineers on task engineering, and define solution requirements and production SOPs.
• Measure and report performance through Factory Acceptance Testing and Site Acceptance Testing, support on-site commissioning, and feed production learnings into product and engineering roadmaps.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Industrial, or Robotics Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience designing and deploying automation or robotic systems in manufacturing or logistics environments.
• Hands-on experience with industrial controls and integration, including PLCs, industrial networking and protocols such as OPC UA, Profinet, and EtherNet/IP, sensors, and conveyors.
• Experience integrating with MES or other plant-level systems.
• Strong understanding of work-cell design, machine safety standards, and risk assessment.
• Track record of taking systems through FAT, commissioning, and SAT.
• Ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into clear technical requirements and designs.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites domestically and internationally.

Nice to have

• Experience at a systems integrator or robotics OEM.
• Experience with simulation tools for work-cell design and throughput analysis.
• Exposure to AI- or vision-based robotic systems.
• Familiarity with both US and European safety and compliance requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Work at the intersection of engineering, product, deployment operations, and business.
• Collaborate with Application Engineering members in the US and Germany.
• Compensation includes equity.