Build/Release Engineer (Robotics)

Location: San Carlos, California, United States; on-site

Salary: $190,000–$230,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds humanoid robots designed to perform household tasks safely in real-world environments.

What you will do

• Design and scale automated build and release pipelines across embedded, cloud, AI, core OS, motion, applications, and simulation platforms.
• Improve build reliability, build performance, deployment efficiency, and release safety.
• Develop automated testing, artifact management, versioning, and release validation systems.
• Partner with software teams to standardize development workflows and improve engineering productivity.
• Establish scalable developer infrastructure, release governance, and CI/CD best practices.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience for Senior level or 10+ years for Staff level in build engineering, release engineering, developer infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Deep expertise in large-scale CI/CD, build automation, and release engineering systems.
• Strong software engineering and automation experience using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and build tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Buildkite, Bazel, Buck2, or CMake.
• Experience supporting Linux-based development environments and distributed software engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

Nice to have

• Experience with robotics, embedded systems, autonomous vehicles, games, or other large-scale software platforms.
• Familiarity with cross-platform builds, embedded firmware builds, or multi-language monorepos.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, artifact repositories, package management, release orchestration, or deployment automation.
• Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience optimizing distributed compilation, caching strategies, build performance, or large-scale developer tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Builder-oriented environment emphasizing ownership, speed, honesty, and respect.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match, plus FSA and HSA options.
• Commuter benefits, disability and life insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• On-site snacks and catered lunches.