Robotics Engineer

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States; expected to work from the Seattle offices

Base salary: $128,880–$193,320 per year, plus bonus plans.

Company

hirify.global is a Seattle-based nonprofit AI research institute developing open-source foundational AI research and applications in robotics, large models, data, and conservation.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain complete control stacks covering low-level control, motion planning, learned policies, and hardware integration.
• Build and maintain sim-to-real pipelines, including system identification, simulation modeling, and policy deployment to real robots.
• Set up, integrate, calibrate, and tune manipulation and mobile robotic platforms.
• Diagnose complex behaviors across hardware, software, and runtime systems.
• Collaborate with researchers to translate algorithms into reliable real-world robotic behavior.
• Use GPU-accelerated simulation frameworks to support large-scale experimentation and learning.

Requirements

• Master’s degree with 3 years of experience, a PhD in robotics or a relevant field, or a bachelor’s degree with 3+ years of industry experience.
• Proficiency in Python and modern robotics and simulation ecosystems.
• Strong experience with physical robots or robotic simulation.
• Development and debugging skills across perception, planning or inference, control, and hardware.
• Clear communication and effective collaboration with research teams.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States; employment authorization is verified through E-Verify.

Nice to have

• Experience implementing and tuning real-time control systems.
• Strong foundation in control, dynamics, and system identification.
• Experience transferring control and learning-based methods from simulation to real robots.
• Familiarity with large-scale simulation and reinforcement learning pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Open-source research environment with collaborations across robotics, computer vision, and language-model teams.
• Learning opportunities through Ai2 Academy lectures, guest experts, and ongoing education support.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and employee assistance program coverage.
• 401(k), health savings and reimbursement accounts, and flexible spending accounts.
• Paid vacation, sick leave, personal days, holidays, and family leave.
• Commuting or internet support, fitness and wellbeing allowance, annual bonuses, and a long-term incentive plan.