Field Operations Lead (Robotics)

Location: Irvine, CA, United States; onsite. Travel domestically and internationally as business needs require.

Salary: USD 190,000–240,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global builds risk-aware, reliable, field-ready AI systems for embodied intelligence, robotics, and real-world autonomous deployments.

What you will do

• Lead daily field operations, including test planning, experimentation, execution, and field test strategy.
• Manage the ground vehicle fleet, preventive and operational maintenance, equipment recovery, and uptime.
• Own field safety practices and coordinate equipment, parts inventory, and deployment logistics.
• Lead hardware integration onto customer vehicles, including by-wire development, testing, and installation.
• Support customer deployments and coordinate Field Application Engineers, technical leads, and customer stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in robotics, engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Significant experience in field applications engineering, robotics deployment, systems integration, technical operations, or a comparable customer-facing engineering function.
• Experience leading, developing, and managing technical field teams and scaling field operations across multiple customers, sites, or geographic regions.
• Strong understanding of complex hardware and software systems involving robotics, autonomous systems, industrial automation, technical infrastructure, or other deployed advanced technology.
• Ability to manage concurrent deployments while balancing customer urgency, technical complexity, staffing constraints, and business priorities.
• Strong troubleshooting, systems-thinking, communication, organizational, and operational skills, including experience developing processes, documentation, training programs, and performance metrics.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally as business needs require.

Nice to have

• Experience deploying robotic or autonomous systems in challenging environments.
• Experience supporting customers in energy, manufacturing, construction, mining, agriculture, logistics, aerospace, defense, or infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Linux, networking, sensors, robotic hardware, autonomy software, and system-level diagnostics.
• Experience managing distributed or international technical teams.
• Experience in a high-growth technology company, industrial site safety, commissioning, customer acceptance procedures, and production-scale deployments.

Culture & Benefits

• Onsite work with real robots, sensors, and field deployments in Irvine.
• Work across AI, software, robotics engineering, product, field deployment, and technical communication.
• Products are tested on hardware and deployed in unstructured environments around the world.
• Inclusive workplace committed to evaluating candidates and employees based on merit, qualifications, and performance.