Robotics Engineer, Model Deployment (AI/Robotics)

Location: Zürich, Switzerland

Company

hirify.global is an early-stage deep-tech robotics and AI startup developing dexterous robotic automation for tedious manual labor and labor shortages.

What you will do

• Integrate and deploy AI models across robotic platforms, hardware stacks, sensors, and customer environments.
• Adapt software, training, and deployment systems for new robots and operating environments.
• Work directly with customer engineering teams to integrate and optimize robotics systems.
• Diagnose AI, software, and robotics integration issues and drive them to resolution.
• Build scalable tooling and workflows for model deployment, monitoring, evaluation, and improvement.
• Plan and execute deployments, coordinate with customers and internal teams, and translate deployment learnings into product improvements.

Requirements

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, AI, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong robotics background and understanding of physical AI and robotics systems.
• Excellent software engineering skills, including designing, implementing, and testing robust solutions.
• Strong Python skills and experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Experience deploying AI/ML systems on real robotic hardware, with knowledge of AI training methods, data pipelines, and model evaluation.
• Fluent English, willingness to travel for customer deployments and technical workshops, and a category B driving licence.

Nice to have

• Experience with imitation learning, reinforcement learning, diffusion policies, or foundation models.
• Experience with robotic manipulation, ROS/ROS2, robot control systems, or simulation environments.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containerization, Docker, Kubernetes, and deployment tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive yearly base salary and a strong stock option package.
• Opportunity to help shape a robotics and AI company from the ground up.
• Flat hierarchies with direct collaboration with founders and robotics specialists.
• Inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives and personal experience.