Applications Engineering Manager (Industrial Robotics)

Location: Remote, but candidates must live on the US West Coast. Requires up to 25% domestic travel.

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

Company

hirify.global develops scalable industrial robots for factory applications, serving customers including independent machine shops, 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 development planning.
• Lead applications engineering from pre-sales proof-of-concept support through post-install 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 installs, and lead strategically important customer engagements.
• Define documentation, handoff, commissioning, customer training, and deployment standards while contributing to playbooks and training materials.

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.
• Experience with customer-facing technical leadership, distributed teams, or territory management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Must live on the US West Coast and be able to travel domestically up to 25%.

Nice to have

• Experience with collaborative robots such as UR, Fanuc, KUKA, or ABB.
• 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) for regular full-time employees.