Engineering Manager, Production Engineering (Robotics)

Location: Watertown, MA, United States; onsite

Salary: USD 175,000–225,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a robotics research and deployment company developing robot hardware and artificial intelligence, manufacturing robots at scale and operating them across customer sites.

What you will do

• Lead production engineers, test and bring-up engineers, technicians, and contract engineers; set priorities, assign work, review output, and develop the team.
• Own the transition of robot designs from prototype through pilot builds and volume production, including work instructions, tooling, fixtures, and station design.
• Develop the production test strategy from subassembly testing through station tests, robot bring-up, and final acceptance.
• Represent Manufacturing in design-change reviews and manage implementation on the production line without sacrificing quality or output.
• Partner with hardware engineering on design-for-manufacturing, design-for-test, serviceability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Investigate recurring electrical, mechanical, and system-level failures using production and field data, driving root-cause fixes while remaining hands-on.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer, or Mechatronics Engineering.
• Proven experience leading engineers through priority setting, work assignment, output review, and people development; formal management or technical-lead experience is accepted.
• Deep hands-on experience designing, integrating, and debugging complex electromechanical systems.
• Strong electrical fundamentals, including reading schematics and using oscilloscopes and meters to troubleshoot power systems, boards, harnesses, sensors, actuators, and communication interfaces.
• Experience taking hardware from prototype through new product introduction into volume production.
• Experience building production test systems, including fixtures, bring-up, end-of-line, or automated testing.
• Hands-on design-for-manufacturing and design-for-test experience with design engineering.
• Experience managing engineering changes on an active production line.
• Daily use of AI tools in engineering work, with the ability to demonstrate their application.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in engineering.
• Experience building or scaling a production or manufacturing engineering team at a hardware startup.
• Robotics or industrial automation experience.
• Cost-reduction experience, including should-cost analysis, value engineering, or BOM and labor reduction.
• Python for test automation, diagnostics, or data analysis.
• Experience with MES, traceability, or change-control systems.
• Contract manufacturer or supplier bring-up experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a hands-on player-coach role and regular collaboration across hardware, software, and deployment teams.
• Fully employer-covered health insurance.
• Managed 401(k).
• Unlimited PTO and federal holidays off for full-time salaried employees.
• Regular in-office meals and team social events.
• Values include ownership, practical problem-solving, continuous learning, fairness, and customer focus.

Hiring process

• Interviewing evaluates alignment with the company’s stated role values, including hands-on leadership, initiative, data-driven improvement, ownership, and customer focus.