Field Deployment Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Remote, with approximately 40–70% international and domestic travel to customer sites; strong onsite collaboration at AIM offices, labs, and proving grounds in the Greater Seattle area.

Salary: $140K–$142K annually, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomy systems for heavy equipment and builds the hardware and field infrastructure required to deploy them at scale.

What you will do

• Lead physical installation of autonomy hardware on heavy equipment, including compute, sensors, wiring, power systems, and mounts.
• Perform mechanical and electrical integration, initial power-on, safety validation, and hardware acceptance checks.
• Validate E-Stops, lockout/tagout procedures, and safety-critical wiring while identifying failure modes caused by vibration, heat, dust, and strain.
• Improve mounts, harnessing, enclosures, service access, and other hardware integration elements for robustness and serviceability.
• Create installation guides, wiring diagrams, checklists, acceptance criteria, and handoff standards.
• Train dealers and communicate with customers about downtime, features, maintenance windows, and machine readiness.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in auto mechanics, heavy equipment installation, field service, or a similar field.
• Hands-on experience with wiring, harnesses, sensors, power systems, and safety circuits.
• Comfort working on large machines outdoors and in demanding environments involving mud, heat, dust, and noise.
• Strong safety mindset, attention to detail, and ability to work autonomously under ambiguous, high-pressure conditions.
• Willingness to travel internationally and domestically, often on short notice, with approximately 40–70% travel.

Nice to have

• Experience deploying robotics, autonomous systems, heavy equipment, or industrial automation.
• Experience with safety-critical systems, emergency stops, lockout/tagout, or functional safety frameworks.
• Familiarity with hydraulics, GNSS systems, perception stacks, or motion control systems.
• Experience creating service manuals, installation guides, or field engineering playbooks.
• OEM or dealer network experience with companies such as Komatsu, Caterpillar, or Volvo.

Culture & Benefits

• High-autonomy work with significant influence on company direction.
• Hands-on collaboration across offices, labs, proving grounds, and customer sites.
• Company-funded medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and life insurance.
• Gourmet food and additional workplace perks.
• Opportunities to travel to deployment sites across the Americas, Australia, Africa, and other regions.