Robotics Kinematics Engineer II (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Salary: $124,000–$186,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops rockets and advanced additive manufacturing technologies, including the Terran R launch vehicle and industrial robotics platforms.

What you will do

• Develop forward and inverse kinematics, redundancy resolution, and other advanced algorithms for real-time robotic systems with 6+ degrees of freedom.
• Own and maintain a shared kinematics library used across multiple robotics software products.
• Develop calibration tools and methodologies for diverse robot calibration workflows.
• Model robot motion and support multi-axis synchronization.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for robot kinematics, motion modeling, and calibration.
• Collaborate with welders, data scientists, material scientists, and other cross-functional robotics and manufacturing teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; a master’s degree is preferred in Robotics Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of experience developing kinematics algorithms for underactuated and redundant robotic systems.
• Strong expertise in robot kinematic modeling and calibration using industrial metrology and localization hardware such as Leica and OptiTrack.
• High proficiency in C++, Linux, and modern software engineering practices, with experience developing in Python.
• Experience designing modular, extensible software architectures for diverse robot kinematics and configurations.
• Experience with ROS and open-source robotics libraries.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-robot coordination and synchronization.
• Experience with mobile manipulators.
• Experience developing software for real-time robotic systems.
• PhD in Robotics, Control Systems, or a related technical field.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an R&D environment focused on industrializing advanced additive manufacturing.
• Competitive salary and equity package.
• Paid time off, sick leave, and parental leave.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Cross-functional collaboration and ownership of projects from design through deployment.