Product Design & HRI Engineer (Robotics Hardware)

Location: Fully onsite at the Irvine, California office

Salary: $100,000–$150,000 per year, plus benefits and equity

Company

hirify.global develops risk-aware, reliable, field-ready AI and robotics systems for unstructured environments.

What you will do

• Drive robot form, shape, CMF, and industrial design decisions that define how robotic systems look and feel.
• Shape human-robot interaction and expressiveness across displays, lighting, audio, movement, and behavior.
• Select, specify, integrate, and program displays, LED systems, speakers, and microphones for industrial and public environments.
• Evaluate display readability, impact resistance, loudness, voice pickup, and acoustic performance in field conditions.
• Write validation scripts for display boot-up, rendering, onboard compute connectivity, and deployment readiness.
• Coordinate with Electrical, Mechanical, Computing, Product, UX, and Field Operations teams to deliver integrated hardware.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Human-Robot Interaction, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical or Industrial Design, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience in industrial or product design, audio-visual systems, or robotics.
• Experience selecting speakers, microphones, OLED/LCD/LED displays, and lighting elements for hardware products.
• Experience balancing size, weight, and power constraints across audio-visual and electromechanical systems.
• Experience with CAD and 3D-print prototyping; SolidWorks, Fusion, or NX and Python or a related programming language.
• Familiarity with HRI/HMI concepts, expressive multimodal interaction, gaze and attention, emotion libraries, and collaboration with Electrical and Mechanical teams.

Nice to have

• End-to-end industrial design experience for consumer robotics or wearable hardware, including concept sketching, CMF systems, and prototyping.
• Experience with user studies, expressive robot design, animation tools such as Blender or Maya, or behavior and emotion libraries.
• Familiarity with functional safety, SIL, and CE, FCC, or UL compliance.
• Experience scaling audio-visual hardware to volume manufacturing with contract manufacturers and DFM/DFA practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully onsite collaboration with flexible working hours.
• Full benefits, equity, and generous time off.
• Work on robotics systems deployed in real-world, unstructured environments.
• Inclusive workplace focused on merit, qualifications, and performance.
• Close-knit, interdisciplinary team with experience from leading robotics, AI, aerospace, and automotive organizations.