DevOps Engineer (Robotics)

Location: On-site in Boston, MA; the R&D team is also described as based in Cambridge, MA

Company

hirify.global develops risk-aware, field-ready AI systems for robotics and embodied intelligence, combining research with real-world deployment.

What you will do

• Build and operate CI/CD for the humanoid monorepo, including containerization, ECR publishing, unit tests, simulation gates, multi-architecture builds, and remote caching.
• Develop test infrastructure spanning simple simulation, Isaac Sim, and physical robots through ROS 2 messages or the robot REST API.
• Own Airflow-based data processing, from rosbag/MCAP ingestion and episode segmentation through format conversion and training delivery.
• Implement dataset lifecycle controls and maintain registries linking datasets to subjects, sessions, robots, and purposes.
• Manage AWS infrastructure as code across ECR, S3, IAM, VPC, EKS, ECS/Fargate, AWS Batch, RDS PostgreSQL, and networking.
• Support researchers and systems engineers, troubleshoot live pipeline and environment issues, and maintain reproducibility, runbooks, and architecture documentation.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles.
• Production AWS experience with ECR, S3, IAM, VPC, EKS, AWS Batch, and ECS/Fargate.
• Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, or an equivalent tool.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD at scale, preferably with GitHub Actions and self-hosted runners.
• Production Kubernetes, container build optimization, workflow orchestration, Python, Bash, Linux administration, networking, and observability experience.
• Ability to work on-site in Boston, MA and independently own infrastructure as the first dedicated infrastructure hire within the research team.

Nice to have

• Infrastructure experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or ML research.
• ROS 2, rosbag/MCAP, Foxglove, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, GPU scheduling, or hardware-in-the-loop CI experience.
• Experience with TB-scale sensor or video data, data governance, SOC 2 compliance, or access reviews.
• Previous experience as the first infrastructure hire on a team.

Culture & Benefits

• Define the infrastructure foundation for the FAIRI humanoid research program.
• Reuse and integrate hirify.global platform, cloud, and data-processing infrastructure instead of creating parallel systems.
• Work directly with researchers, systems engineers, platform teams, cloud teams, and data-processing teams.
• Build infrastructure that supports real robotics deployments and customer-facing deadlines.