Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics)

Location: San Francisco, United States; on-site

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

Company

hirify.global is a research lab developing models of human embodied intelligence through custom hardware, large-scale data collection, robotics, and scientific research.

What you will do

• Build systems for multimodal perception, annotation, dataset quality assurance, and robotics evaluation.
• Fine-tune and evaluate vision-language-action models on downstream robotics tasks and policy performance.
• Develop post-training and reinforcement learning systems for robotics failure modes and corrective demonstrations.
• Work on video understanding, tracking, pose estimation, temporal modeling, and multimodal alignment.
• Develop benchmarking, observability, and temporal-efficiency tooling.
• Prototype and ship systems based on real-world robotics deployments and research feedback.

Requirements

• Strong machine learning engineering fundamentals across robotics, computer vision, and perception systems.
• Experience with video understanding, tracking, pose estimation, robotics, or real-world sensor systems.
• Strong technical intuition and ability to work quickly in ambiguous research environments.
• Demonstrated exceptional ownership and motivation to work on embodied AI and physical AGI.

Nice to have

• Published research or production experience in robotics, embodied AI, reinforcement learning, motion capture, or vision systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a lean, deeply technical research environment operating at high speed.
• Own meaningful systems and projects end-to-end from the start.
• Contribute directly to robotics model capabilities and research into human embodied intelligence.
• Equity offered in addition to the stated salary.