Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Agentic Systems)

Location: Waltham Office, United States; onsite

Salary: $155,000–$235,000 annually, plus an annual bonus structure

Company

hirify.global develops humanoid robotics technology and commercial solutions for industrial, logistics, and warehouse applications.

What you will do

• Design and implement System 2 architectures for humanoid robot control, including planning, reasoning, memory, and tool-use frameworks.
• Build logging, observability, and evaluation methodologies to measure reasoning quality, safety, reliability, and generalization.
• Collaborate with behavior, controls, perception, and product teams to ship end-to-end robotic capabilities.
• Work with customers and internal stakeholders to understand real-world use cases and develop practical, reliable solutions.
• Translate state-of-the-art agentic research into production systems.
• Contribute through code reviews, testing, documentation, and thoughtful system design.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant work on LLM-driven or agentic systems.
• Hands-on experience building or deploying agentic architectures such as coding agents, tool-using LLM systems, or autonomous task agents.
• Experience improving agentic system performance through evaluation and benchmarking.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software architecture.
• Ability to ship reliable, maintainable, and well-tested software.
• Ability to reason about safety, failure modes, and robustness in autonomous systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with robotics systems, vision models, and VLAs.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Python, and/or C++ across large codebases.
• Knowledge and application of coding agents.
• Research, open-source, or novel production systems contributions that advance the state of the art.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on Atlas humanoid robots and cutting-edge robotics technology.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) and paid time off.
• Annual bonus structure.
• Rapidly growing commercial environment focused on customer-facing technology and solutions.