Field Optimization Engineers (Robotics)

Location: Remote; approximately 40–70% international and domestic travel, including customer sites in the US, Australia, Africa, and Europe.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous machines that improve continuously through real-world operation on jobsites.

What you will do

• Tune autonomy behaviors for dozing, excavation, loading, and other operational tasks across varied environments.
• Analyze autonomy performance metrics, failure modes, error distributions, edge cases, and operational data.
• Design and execute functional, performance, environmental, regression, and safety tests on customer sites.
• Validate releases, patches, hardware revisions, autonomy updates, telemetry reliability, and degraded-mode behavior under real operational stress.
• Translate field observations into actionable inputs for AI, planning, autonomy, software, and hardware teams.
• Build scripts, integrations, custom workflows, customer data APIs, cloud ingestion, and operator UI improvements when needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, Robotics, or Systems Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in field engineering, systems engineering, SDE/SDE-T, robotics deployment, industrial automation, or test and validation engineering.
• Hands-on experience debugging complex hardware and software systems under real-world constraints.
• Strong scripting ability in Python, Bash, JavaScript, or an equivalent language, with the ability to write production-quality scripts or small features.
• Understanding of sensors, networking, Linux systems, compute modules, and embedded hardware fundamentals.
• Experience designing and executing test plans, reporting structured quality findings, and communicating field issues as clear engineering requirements.

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 with test automation, CI test harnesses, validation pipelines, service manuals, installation guides, or field engineering playbooks.
• OEM or dealer network experience, including Komatsu, Caterpillar, or Volvo.

Culture & Benefits

• Run workstreams with a high degree of autonomy and contribute to company and product direction.
• Work across AIM offices, labs, and proving grounds in the Greater Seattle area.
• Receive company-funded medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, food, and other perks.
• Travel to unique operating sites across the Americas, Australia, Africa, and other regions.
• Iterate and test under stress to improve autonomy performance with every deployment.