HR Generalist (AI/Robotics)

Location: Onsite at the Carson HQ, Los Angeles area, four days per week. Must be authorized to work in the United States and maintain ongoing work authorization throughout employment.

Salary: $120,000–$180,000 per year, plus equity and bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a well-capitalized robotics startup building Physical AI and Factory SuperIntelligence systems for industrial manufacturing through a Robots-as-a-Service model.

What you will do

• Own the employee experience from onboarding through offboarding, including orientation, lifecycle processes, employee engagement, recognition, internal communications, and exit processes.
• Plan company events, offsites, and culture-building initiatives while partnering with stakeholders to provide employees with required tools, software access, and devices.
• Run payroll end to end for hourly, salaried, and contractor populations; reconcile benefits enrollment and carrier invoices; and administer employee leave programs.
• Ensure multi-state employment compliance, prepare audit documentation, maintain the employee handbook and HR policies, and lead investigations and employee relations matters.
• Serve as the UKG power user and own HRIS configuration, data integrity, reporting, workflow automation, email templates, and people metrics.
• Optimize scalable HR processes and use AI and automation tools to streamline reporting, audits, communications, and repetitive workflows; support interview scheduling, onsite candidate hosting, events, and other HR projects.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in HR, people operations, or similar roles.
• 2+ years building company-wide processes from scratch within the same company and 2+ years working at a technology startup or technology company.
• Proven knowledge of multi-state employment compliance, especially California, and risk mitigation across hourly, contractor, and salaried classifications.
• Power-user proficiency in UKG or a comparable HRIS, such as ADP, Paylocity, or Workday, including configuration, reporting, and email or workflow template management.
• Demonstrated fluency using AI tools such as Claude for reporting, communications, and day-to-day HR work.
• Ownership of payroll administration and benefits reconciliation.
• Proven experience guiding managers through terminations, layoffs, and other difficult personnel decisions.
• Excellent communication, project management, interpersonal, relationship-building, collaboration, strategic thinking, and innovative problem-solving skills.
• Authorization to work in the United States for the full duration of employment.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Psychology, Business Administration, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Development, Human Resources, or a related field.
• Experience in both startup and enterprise environments, ideally transitioning from enterprise to startups most recently.
• HR certification such as PHR or SHRM-CP.
• Experience with WEX, Ashby, Ethena, ClickUp, and other HR or project management tools.
• Expertise with Notion, Scribe, Airtable, Slack integrations, HR automation platforms, and other efficiency tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-growing, high-expectation startup environment with significant influence over culture, processes, and HR infrastructure.
• Work onsite at the Carson HQ four days per week.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; unlimited PTO; and a 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Equity, bonus eligibility, regular offsite events, and a discretionary productivity fund.
• Commitment to equal employment opportunities, inclusion, and reasonable accommodations.