Senior Release Manager (Robotics)

Location: Fully remote within the United States, with an option to work hybrid from a commutable distance to offices in Salem, Oregon; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; or Fremont, California. Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.

Anticipated base salary range: $128,000–$199,000 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global develops commercially deployed humanoid robots for warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers.

What you will do

• Own release planning and execution for robot software, firmware, cloud services, and hardware variants, including major, minor, patch, and hotfix releases.
• Define release criteria, run readiness reviews, coordinate QA and V&V results, and lead go/no-go decisions and blameless post-release reviews.
• Establish configuration management, versioning, branching, traceability, release policies, and standardized release-train processes.
• Coordinate system integration, validation, field readiness, customer-site deployments, defect resolution, and regression response across engineering and operations teams.
• Plan staged OTA rollouts, rollback mechanisms, contingency plans, incident playbooks, and customer acceptance activities.
• Instrument CI/CD, signing, artifact, OTA, telemetry, logging, and tracing pipelines; build dashboards and track release and fleet-health metrics.

Requirements

• 5+ years of release management experience for complex integrated systems involving hardware, firmware, and software.
• Release experience in robotics, autonomous systems, automotive, aerospace, or a similar hardware-software domain.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams through complex product development and deployment cycles in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Hands-on experience building release automation, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment orchestration with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Buildkite.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, configuration management, version control, Git, issue tracking, severity-based triage, and release criteria.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Foxglove, Datadog, or Sentry.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash/Shell for automation and data analysis.
• Experience with OTA updates, versioning, canary and ring-based rollouts, rollback design, fleet-state tracking, and release dependencies across software, firmware, and hardware variants.
• Ability to define release-health metrics and SLIs/SLOs for deployed devices, communicate technically with engineering and business stakeholders, influence without authority, and make data-driven decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or advanced manufacturing automation.
• Familiarity with ROS 2 build and packaging tooling.
• Experience implementing release trains, automated release-note generation, artifact management, artifact signing, secure update chains, Docker, or fleet issue triage and root-cause analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a 401(k) plan including a 6% company match, equity, and company-paid medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance.
• Benefits begin on the first day; support includes an employee assistance program, parental leave, professional development, and tuition reimbursement.
• Exempt employees receive flexible unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays including a winter shutdown; non-exempt employees receive vacation, paid sick leave, and 12 company holidays.
• Flexible work arrangements, with catered lunches and refreshments available at Salem and Pittsburgh offices.
• Relocation assistance and annual discretionary bonuses are available for eligible roles.

Hiring process

• Apply directly through the company careers page; unsolicited third-party recruiting agency referrals are not accepted, and represented applications may not be considered.