Software Engineer: ML Optimization (Robotics)

Location: Onsite in Boston (Somerville), United States

Salary: $260K–$350K annually, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global builds embodied foundation models, robotics hardware, and AI systems designed to help robots interact intelligently with the physical world.

What you will do

• Own optimizations across the training and on-robot inference stacks.
• Implement ML, hardware, and software changes that deliver step-function performance gains.
• Optimize inference and training systems across the full stack.
• Investigate performance bottlenecks in CUDA kernels, ML architecture, networks, CPUs, NVLink, communications, PyTorch, NumPy, and Python.

Requirements

• Proficiency with current ML techniques for training and inference optimization.
• Experience optimizing transformer- and diffusion-based architectures.
• Ability to pursue optimization opportunities across ML, hardware, software, networking, and numerical-computing layers.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time onsite role in Boston (Somerville).
• Work alongside researchers, roboticists, and company builders focused on AI and robotics.
• Compensation includes equity.
• Equal opportunity employment with no discrimination based on legally protected characteristics.