Senior Robotics Engineer (Robot Learning)

Location: Onsite at the Cypress, California facility, with regular time at the Redondo Beach, California facility.

Salary: $200,000–$260,000 USD.

Company

hirify.global Systems manufactures electrical wire harnesses for major aerospace and defense companies and develops automation for complex manufacturing.

What you will do

• Own learned manipulation on the production line, starting with machine tending, including picking, loading, and feeding variable wire and parts.
• Develop perception, grasping, learned skills, and failure-analysis workflows and transfer them into production cells.
• Build data pipelines using teleoperation demonstrations, station-camera data, production data, labeling, training, and hardware evaluation.
• Research dexterous and wire manipulation for small parts, deformable wire, and contact-rich assembly.
• Evaluate and post-train open-weight and partner robot foundation models, recommending what to build versus buy.
• Set quarterly research plans with deliverables and go/no-go criteria, support partner pilots, and help hire and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience training and deploying learning-based manipulation on real robots, including approaches such as imitation learning, diffusion or transformer policies, reinforcement learning, or robot foundation models; simulation-only experience is insufficient.
• Experience with teleoperation or demonstration collection, data pipelines, and evaluation on hardware.
• Track record at a robotics research lab, frontier robotics company, or team shipping learned robotic systems, including work led by the candidate.
• Experience with contact-rich or deformable-object manipulation, such as cables, insertion, or cloth.
• Track record of rapidly answering experimental questions on real hardware.
• Strong Python and a deep learning framework such as PyTorch or JAX; comfort with C++ and ROS 2 or similar systems on real robots.
• Ability to own a technical area end to end, collaborate with senior engineers, and communicate with technicians, engineers, and leadership.
• Master's or PhD in robotics, computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or computer engineering, or equivalent research or industry experience.
• Must be a U.S. Person as defined under ITAR: U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to obtain the required authorizations.

Nice to have

• Learned skills shipped into a production or commercial setting.
• Experience with dexterous hands, tactile sensing, or force-controlled manipulation.
• Sim-to-real transfer and simulation tools such as MuJoCo or Isaac Sim.
• Publications or open-source work in robot learning.
• Wire harness, cable assembly, or other high-mix assembly experience.
• Startup or high-growth company experience.
• Experience mentoring engineers or building a research team.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on ownership on a small, mission-driven team developing systems for real production lines.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, plus FSA and DSA programs.
• 20 vacation days and 12 company holidays per year.
• 401(k), equity participation, up to $100/month gym reimbursement, and $50/month DoorDash credit.
• Onsite collaborative facilities with free parking, stocked kitchen, team events, and access to public transit and major freeways.

Hiring process

• Applicants with backgrounds spanning this role and the Senior Robotics Engineer, Production or Senior Engineer, Data & Perception roles may apply to any relevant position and explain the overlap.