Forward Deployed Engineer (AI/Robotics)

Location: San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo), United States; onsite

Salary: $150K–$200K annually plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds embodied foundation models for dexterity and AI systems that enable robots to work in the physical world.

What you will do

• Own technical delivery of customer deployments from requirements and success criteria through integration, rollout, onboarding, field debugging, and improvement.
• Design and build reliable, maintainable integrations connecting hirify.global systems with customer APIs, applications, and workflows.
• Design robot tasks and evaluation workflows, analyze rollout data, and refine tasks when real-world performance falls short.
• Debug software, integrations, robot behavior, and operating environments using logs, observations, experiments, and verified fixes.
• Work directly with customers to understand constraints, explain tradeoffs, communicate progress, and retain ownership of outcomes.
• Convert deployment experience into reusable tooling, documentation, diagnostics, playbooks, and system improvements.

Requirements

• Production software development experience with the ability to take ambiguous requirements through a tested, working solution.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing integrations across APIs, services, or complex systems.
• Ability to explain design choices and reason through failure modes.
• Methodical debugging skills: define expected behavior, gather evidence, test hypotheses, and verify underlying fixes.
• Ability to work directly with customers, translate needs into engineering work, and communicate complex issues clearly.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar technical domains quickly and curiosity about machine learning, robotics, and reliable real-world operation.
• Ownership in an early-stage environment, including creating structure and balancing immediate customer needs with future deployment improvements.
• Willingness to work hands-on with robots and customer teams, including time at customer sites.

Nice to have

• Experience in robotics, machine learning, or deploying complex software in customer environments.
• Strong software engineering background with eagerness to learn robotics.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, cross-functional work with research, engineering, operations, partnerships, customers, and robot hardware.
• Early-stage opportunity to establish the Forward Deployed Engineering function and its technical practices.
• Work focused on embodied AI, robotics, and deploying systems in real-world environments.
• Equity is offered with the salary.
• Equal opportunity employment with no discrimination based on legally protected characteristics.