Member of Technical Staff – Robotics (AI)

Location: On-site in San Francisco, CA, United States

Company

hirify.global builds AI-powered world simulation systems for robotics, embodied AI, and interactive applications.

What you will do

• Benchmark and evaluate robot foundation models in simulated environments.
• Design evaluation frameworks for robotic reasoning, planning, manipulation, navigation, generalization, robustness, and task performance.
• Develop and train world models using multimodal robot data, including vision, depth, state, and actions.
• Collect and curate real-world robotics datasets and improve sim-to-real transfer for policies and world models.
• Set up, integrate, maintain, and debug robotic hardware, sensors, perception systems, control software, and compute platforms.
• Build deployment, simulation-testing, validation, and continuous-improvement workflows connecting research systems with physical robots.

Requirements

• Strong background in robotics, embodied AI, machine learning, or a related field.
• Experience working with physical robotic systems and deploying software onto real robotic hardware.
• Experience with robotics simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Habitat, Gazebo, or similar.
• Familiarity with robot learning, foundation models, or world models.
• Strong Python software engineering and robotics tooling skills.
• Ability to debug across hardware, software, and machine learning systems.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person, on-site work with the engineering and research team in San Francisco.
• Work at the intersection of robotics, physical AI, world models, simulation infrastructure, synthetic data generation, and embodied intelligence.
• Collaborate closely with researchers and engineers on next-generation simulation environments and AI systems.
• Contribute to foundational infrastructure for robots that learn, reason, and operate in the physical world.