Senior Staff ML Engineer, Spot (AI)

Location: Waltham Office, United States

Base pay: $175,000–$215,000 annually

Company

hirify.global develops advanced robots, including Spot, and the Orbit intelligent automation platform for coordinating robot fleets and industrial-site inspections.

What you will do

• Research, prototype, deploy, and continuously improve Orbit machine learning systems.
• Develop models using multimodal data from robotic sensors to identify anomalous machine states and classify objects.
• Establish methods for evaluating inspection model performance.
• Curate datasets for model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
• Improve model performance through fine-tuning, model selection, prompt engineering, and related strategies.
• Collaborate with full-stack engineers, product management, design, ML platform engineers, and robotics researchers.

Requirements

• BS with 8+ years of experience or MS with 5+ years of industry experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field.
• Experience training, fine-tuning, and applying state-of-the-art generative AI models, preferably for computer vision tasks.
• Proficiency in Python and common ML tools, architectures, and workflows.
• Ability to track the state of the art and identify opportunities for product applications.
• Ability to work deeply on challenging computer vision problems, develop customer-focused solutions collaboratively, and clearly communicate findings.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Culture & Benefits

• Work as part of the OrbitAI team within the Spot organization.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, and an annual bonus structure.
• Additional benefit-plan details are provided after an offer is made.