Robotics Reliability Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Redwood City, California, United States; on-site

Salary: $160,000–$200,000 annual base salary, plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops general-purpose humanoid robots powered by an embodied AI foundation model for commercial robotic automation.

What you will do

• Root-cause actuator dropouts, encoder and calibration drift, thermal events, CAN bus faults, and control-stack issues across the deployed robot fleet.
• Bench-test, repair, solder, re-commission, and physically validate electromechanical components and assemblies.
• Design and fabricate test fixtures, jigs, brackets, mounts, and other mechanical modifications for fielded robots.
• Build fleet health metrics, degradation alerts, calibration tools, characterization sweeps, and firmware and software validation harnesses.
• Extract and decode constrained robot telemetry, improve monitoring pipelines, and analyze logs at scale.
• Create runbooks, SOPs, incident reports, handoff packages, and review fixes across firmware, controls, and deployment configuration.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in robotics, mechatronics, hardware test, or reliability engineering, including substantial work with fielded hardware.
• Hands-on experience using soldering irons, multimeters, calipers, test fixtures, and electromechanical teardown and repair techniques.
• Understanding of actuator failure modes, including backlash, wear, preload loss, and end-stop damage.
• Working knowledge of robot control, impedance and torque-controlled actuators, force-control parameters, and boot, emergency-stop, and reconnect lifecycles.
• Strong Python skills for data analysis and tooling, with experience analyzing time series, signal statistics, drift, persistence, and alert quality.
• Fluency with actuators, motor control, encoders, torque and current telemetry, CAN, calibration procedures, observability tools such as Datadog, Git, and pull-request workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience with teleoperation systems, VR interfaces, or data-collection fleets.
• Hardware qualification experience across EVT, DVT, or PVT, or experience with manufacturing and incoming tests.
• Simulation sanity-checking experience in MuJoCo.
• Experience building tools and SOPs adopted by other engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Technical rigor and mutual respect are emphasized.
• The role connects deployed robot performance with hardware, firmware, controls, and model improvements.
• Equity is included in the compensation package.
• hirify.global is committed to equal employment opportunity and a diverse team.