Software Engineer, Human-Robot Interaction (Dialogue Systems) (AI)

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States; On-site

Salary: $125,000–$170,000 per year

Company

Develops risk-aware, reliable, field-ready AI and robotics systems for unstructured real-world environments, combining research with practical deployment.

What you will do

• Architect and implement dialogue systems for natural, multimodal communication between operators and robots.
• Develop interaction frameworks that adapt to user expertise, environmental context, and task requirements.
• Create mechanisms that explain robot intent, state, and decision-making to operators.
• Integrate foundation models into HRI pipelines and improve their efficiency and performance on edge devices.
• Evaluate model outputs and build safe, reliable, contextually appropriate robot responses.
• Translate HRI research into field-deployable systems through user studies, field experiments, and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Hands-on experience developing human-robot interaction systems, dialogue systems, natural language interfaces, or multimodal interaction.
• Proficiency with foundation models and their integration into production software systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python and C++.
• Understanding of HRI principles, including user modeling, explainability, and trust calibration.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and interdisciplinary collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, or a related field.
• Experience with robotics middleware for real-time systems.
• Publications in HRI, CHI, ICRA, RSS, CoRL, ACL, or EMNLP.
• Experience with speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue management, user study design, or evaluation methodologies.
• Contributions to open-source robotics or NLP projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with an interdisciplinary R&D organization focused on real-world robotics deployments.
• Collaborate with perception, planning, autonomy, product, UX, and customer-facing teams.
• Contribute to systems emphasizing explainability, safety, and reliable performance.
• Join colleagues based across the United States and globally.
• Inclusive workplace with equal-opportunity employment practices.