Senior Research Scientist, Large Behavior Models (Robotics)

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; hybrid workplace

Salary: $180,000–$258,750 per year for Massachusetts-based roles, with an annual cash bonus structure

Company

hirify.global develops AI, robotics, driving, and material-science technologies focused on improving human life and advancing mobility.

What you will do

• Build useful robots and general-purpose robot foundation models with a cross-functional research team.
• Implement and create state-of-the-art methods for robot behavior learning from interactive embodied data and online data sources.
• Design high-performance machine-learning pipelines and optimize data and learning stacks for scalability, efficiency, and performance.
• Develop internal robotics capabilities and contribute to high-impact external research publications.
• Collaborate with internal research scientists and partner laboratories at MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, Columbia, and Princeton.

Requirements

• PhD in computer science, machine learning, robotics, or a closely related field.
• Experience training large models and deploying them on embodied systems, particularly for robotic manipulation.
• Strong Python development skills and familiarity with mixed C++/Python codebases.
• Extensive practical machine-learning experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow, including data pipelines, model serving, optimization, cloud training, and dataset management.
• Strong understanding of robot learning, including generative models, reinforcement learning, and/or world models.
• Practical experience with physical robots, system integration, and research deployment on hardware platforms.

Nice to have

• Industry experience in robotics and machine-learning research.
• Experience with ROS 2, communication protocols, modern ML infrastructure, or VR-based teleoperation.
• Knowledge of motion control, whole-body control, robotic simulation, visual perception, depth sensors, force and tactile sensing, or haptic interfaces.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, diverse, and inclusive research environment.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) eligibility and paid vacation, sick time, and parental leave.
• Annual cash bonus structure.
• Research impact is measured through capability development, open-source software, and publications.