Staff Product Manager, Applied AI

Location: Mountain View, CA, United States. The role includes time on lab and manufacturing floors and travel to supplier and manufacturing sites as needed.

Annual salary: $215,000–$245,000

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered humanoid robots, including Apollo, for manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, home, and other applications.

What you will do

• Own the product vision, roadmap, milestones, and release cycles for Apollo’s physical AI model stack.
• Drive the integration, adaptation, and fine-tuning of foundation models into the robot’s autonomy stack while balancing capability velocity, reliability, and safety.
• Translate customer use cases into model requirements, acceptance criteria, benchmarks, and deployment gates.
• Define the data strategy, target tasks, collection methods, tooling, and quality standards supporting model development.
• Prioritize customer use cases and product features based on business impact, feasibility, and user needs.
• Partner with industrial design, UX, engineering, marketing, customers, and data operations teams to develop and commercialize interactive robotic features.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product management experience; the broader experience requirement includes at least 10 years in product management or engineering.
• 5+ years leading product managers and a track record of shipping complex hardware products.
• Strong understanding of robot learning techniques, including imitation learning and reinforcement learning.
• Experience integrating, adapting, or fine-tuning models and understanding the constraints of running large neural networks on physical edge devices.
• Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills, including translating technical insights into business impact.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in mechanical, electrical, systems, robotics engineering, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous robots or autonomous vehicles.
• Experience using simulation tools to improve user experience.
• Experience with data collection operations, including teleoperation fleets, annotation, and curation pipelines.
• Experience with customers in light- and heavy-duty industrial environments.
• Experience with robotics and functional safety standards such as ISO 10218, ISO/TS 15066, ISO 13482, and RIA 15.08.
• Advanced degree or MBA.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on applied AI and humanoid robotics across the full robotics stack.
• Contribute to products addressing safety, commercialization, and mass production challenges.
• Direct-hire employment position.
• Work includes collaboration across laboratory, manufacturing, supplier, and customer environments.