Robotics Software Engineer III, Manipulation

Location: Hybrid, based in Fremont, California, or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.

Salary: $155,000–$241,000 USD annually.

Company

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

What you will do

• Own a manipulation task vertical from definition through reliable execution on humanoid robots.
• Develop behaviors using learned and classical manipulation approaches, including policies and primitives.
• Run the learning-from-demonstration flywheel across data collection, operator instructions, annotation, training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Analyze logs, replays, state distributions, and failures to identify root causes and improve reliability.
• Integrate learned policies with higher-level skills to execute complete robot workflows.
• Collaborate with teleoperators and the ML team while evaluating manipulation and perception models.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Robotics, AI, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• At least 2 years of experience deploying manipulation behaviors on real robots.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Python.
• Experience collecting robot data and training and testing manipulation systems on hardware.
• Familiarity with areas such as grasp planning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, force control, teleoperation, robot sensors, visual servoing, or object perception.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States and work from the Fremont or Pittsburgh office on a hybrid basis.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance covered by the company.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% company match and company stock options.
• Paid parental leave, paid time off, sick leave, company holidays, and a winter shutdown.
• Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
• Relocation assistance and an annual discretionary bonus for eligible roles.
• Flexible work arrangements, catered lunches at selected locations, and employee well-being support.