Senior Robotics Systems Engineer (AI Robotics)

Location: Milpitas, California, United States; 5 days per week in-office

Salary: $160,000–$265,000 USD per year + bonus + equity

Company

hirify.global is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI-powered robots for dull, dirty, and dangerous industrial work, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability.

What you will do

• Develop the foundational platform for perception, planning, control, and autonomous robot operation.
• Design software interfaces between high-level applications and sensors, actuators, embedded controllers, and communication buses.
• Design and integrate mechatronic systems, mechanisms, electrical subsystems, and test fixtures.
• Integrate and debug robotic systems across software, embedded, networking, electrical, and mechanical domains.
• Diagnose performance, reliability, timing, and hardware-interface issues across the robot stack.
• Drive reliability and scalability through testing and root-cause analysis.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on industry, academic, or research-lab experience building, integrating, and deploying robotic systems.
• Experience developing drivers, hardware abstraction layers, or software interfaces for sensors, actuators, or embedded devices.
• Experience with several of ROS/ROS2, real-time or embedded Linux, fieldbus or device communications, distributed middleware, sensor/actuator integration, and performance optimization.
• Ability to design and troubleshoot basic electrical circuits and mechanical components.
• Strong debugging, system integration, and root-cause analysis skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with humanoids, mobile manipulators, or similar platforms.
• Linux kernel development, kernel modules, device drivers, or low-level systems software experience.
• Experience optimizing communication, latency, reliability, or observability in distributed robotic systems.
• Experience with AI-enabled robotic systems, teleoperation or data-collection devices, and real-world robot data pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, in-office collaboration with the team five days per week.
• Competitive stock options and equity programs.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Visa sponsorship and green card support for qualified candidates.
• Lunches, dinners, a stocked kitchen, and regular team-building events.