Engineering Lab Manager (Robotics)

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States; onsite

Expected base salary: $65,000–$85,000 USD per year, depending on experience and internal leveling.

Company

hirify.global develops commercially scalable, safe hirify.global robots, including the HMND-01 platform deployed in real industrial environments.

What you will do

• Maintain a clean, safe, organized, and functional hardware lab, including workbenches, storage, and shared spaces.
• Manage engineering inventory, including receiving, tracking, restocking, procurement, vendor coordination, and kitting parts for builds and repairs.
• Support equipment setup, basic maintenance, calibration, issue tracking, repairs, and replacement coordination for oscilloscopes, power supplies, soldering stations, and test fixtures.
• Coordinate deliveries and lab access, support onboarding to lab tools and processes, and help enforce lab safety policies.
• Provide day-to-day operational support to the engineering team, including demo setup, shipments, and sourcing hard-to-find components.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience in an electronics, engineering, or hardware lab environment through work or school.
• Experience managing physical inventory in a lab, warehouse, makerspace, or production environment, including receiving, tracking, reorder thresholds, and vendor coordination.
• Familiarity with component and inventory management tools or systems.
• Comfort handling and organizing electronic components, PCBAs, cables, and lab equipment.
• Expertise with ESD handling protocols for sensitive electronic components and assemblies.
• Strong attention to detail, communication skills, and ability to keep shared spaces organized and functional.
• Ability to work closely with technical teams and manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to lift and carry equipment and materials weighing up to 40 lbs as part of regular lab duties.

Nice to have

• Experience with basic soldering, rework, or electronics assembly.
• Exposure to robotics, electromechanical systems, or a hardware startup environment.
• Experience using Notion, Jira, or similar tools for tracking and documentation.
• Experience with PLM tools such as TeamCenter or Arena.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, hands-on role in a small, fast-moving office with approximately 30 engineers.
• Work directly in an early-stage hirify.global robotics environment focused on industrial hardware development.