Machine Learning Research Engineer (Robotics)

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

Company

hirify.global is building consumer personal robots that use embodied AI to perform repetitive household tasks.

What you will do

• Design and develop robot learning algorithms for dexterous manipulation and controls.
• Use large-scale real-world data collection to develop generalizable robot behaviors.
• Own the workflow from task definition and data curation to model training, evaluation, and on-robot deployment.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional robotics team developing a consumer personal robot.
• Write maintainable, production-quality code for research and deployment.

Requirements

• 3+ years or equivalent experience in machine learning for robotics, controls, or perception.
• Proficiency in Python and a deep learning framework; PyTorch is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with robot learning for real-world tasks, including offline and online training and evaluation.
• Experience building tooling for visualization, debugging, and evaluation of data and learning pipelines.
• Clear communication and effective collaboration in fast-moving, cross-functional teams.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of classical robotics fundamentals, including controls, planning, and state estimation.
• Experience profiling and optimizing latency, memory, and compute on edge devices.
• Experience with large-scale model training pipelines such as LLM, VLM, or VLA systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work as an early member of a small, cross-functional robotics team.
• Contribute to an ambitious effort to make generalized personal robots broadly accessible.
• Collaborate in an environment shaped by curiosity, creativity, and diversity.
• Equal opportunity employment is provided to qualified applicants.