Applications Engineering Manager (Industrial Robotics)

Location: Remote within the United States; based in Boston, MA, with up to 25% domestic travel

Salary: $140,000–$180,000 per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds scalable industrial robots for factory automation, serving customers ranging from independent machine shops to NASA and Lockheed Martin.

What you will do

• Manage and develop a distributed team of Applications Engineers across the assigned territory.
• Own capacity planning, workload distribution, performance conversations, and professional development.
• Lead applications engineering from pre-sales proof-of-concept support through post-installation customer success.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex integrations, difficult customer situations, and challenging installations.
• Design solutions, review integrations, commission robotic cells, support installations, and sign off on solution designs and integration plans.
• Define documentation, handoff, commissioning, customer training, and deployment standards while feeding field learnings into product and engineering teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on applications engineering, systems integration, or automation engineering experience.
• 2+ years of people management or team lead experience.
• Fluency across mechanical, electrical, and software domains, including PLC programming, ladder logic, pneumatics, DC power systems, robot programming, Python scripting, and CAD.
• Strong customer-facing communication and senior-level technical escalation skills.
• Experience managing a distributed team or territory and willingness to travel domestically up to 25%.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent hands-on experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with collaborative robots such as UR, Fanuc, KUKA, ABB, or similar platforms.
• Experience scaling an applications or field engineering function.
• Experience with vision systems, force/torque sensing, or custom end-of-arm tooling.
• Familiarity with machine tending, palletizing, welding, or assembly automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on player-coach role with regular involvement in factory-floor and customer-site work.
• Employee stock options for full-time employees.
• Paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) benefits for regular full-time employees.