Research Engineer (Embodied AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States

Salary: $100,000–$200,000 per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global is a Y Combinator-backed research lab building custom hardware and data infrastructure to model human embodied intelligence for robotics and scientific research.

What you will do

• Research multimodal sensing systems and sensor-fusion methods for embodied AI and robotics.
• Evaluate how sensor modalities affect VLA training, robot learning, policy performance, and generalization.
• Work with RGB-D video, IMUs, motion capture, tactile sensing, audio, and wearable-system data.
• Design experiments for synchronization, calibration, fusion, and multimodal alignment.
• Prototype and iterate sensing systems using feedback from real-world robotics deployments and research.
• Collaborate with hardware, machine learning, and research teams on next-generation robotics datasets and sensing systems.

Requirements

• Master’s or PhD in robotics, computer vision, sensing systems, or a related field.
• Published research in sensor fusion, perception systems, multimodal datasets, or embodied AI.
• Strong technical intuition for hardware systems and robot learning.
• Experience with RGB-D video, IMUs, motion capture, tactile sensing, or robotics systems.
• Experience with reinforcement learning, real-world robot deployments, and the effect of data on downstream policy performance.
• Curiosity, strong execution, and comfort operating from first principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Lean, deeply technical research environment operating at high speed.
• Ownership of meaningful systems from the first day.
• Work directly connected to model capabilities, robotics, and research into human embodied intelligence.
• Equity offered as part of compensation.