Robot Science Operations (Robotics)

Location: On-site in the San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo) or Boston (Somerville)

Salary: $150,000–$200,000 plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops embodied foundation models and robotic systems focused on dexterity and intelligent interaction with the physical world.

What you will do

• Execute experiments across multiple robot platforms and collaborate with ML research teams to interpret results.
• Design robotic tasks, physical benchmarks, and structured evaluations of model capabilities.
• Coordinate robot data collection, training jobs, evaluations, and real-world success-rate measurement.
• Configure, calibrate, assemble, and debug robots and lightweight hardware fixtures for rollouts.
• Beta test internal and third-party tools for teaching robots new skills.
• Document reproducible workflows, identify operational bottlenecks, and improve system throughput.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with robot data collection, evaluation, or deployment.
• Conceptual understanding of modern ML training, fine-tuning, and inference lifecycles.
• Experience running experiments and tracking real-world metrics across model variants.
• Comfort working across software, hardware, and physical systems, including basic wiring, sensor mounting, fixture assembly, and hardware debugging.
• Strong organization, coordination, and technical documentation skills.
• Execution-oriented approach with willingness to handle repetitive evaluations and iterate quickly.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional work at the intersection of ML, robotics, and operations.
• Close collaboration with ML researchers and opportunities to prototype ideas.
• Hands-on focus on accelerating real-world robot development through rapid execution loops.
• Equity included in the compensation package.