Tech Lead (Robotics)

Location: Palo Alto, United States; work arrangement: on-site

Company

hirify.global develops generalized physical AI and robotic systems for dexterous, adaptive, reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments.

What you will do

• Architect fleet-wide deployment systems for OTA updates, versioned rollouts, staged and canary releases, rollbacks, and configuration management across heterogeneous robot hardware.
• Design and build hardware-in-the-loop test reporting, simulation-based regression testing, and pre-deployment validation gates.
• Build and evolve fleet management tooling, dashboards, and APIs for robot inventory, software and configuration versions, health state, and deployment status.
• Own CI/CD pipelines and the delivery path from build artifacts to running processes on physical robots at remote sites.
• Establish technical standards and conduct deep design and code reviews across deployment, testing, and DevOps.
• Design logging infrastructure and visualization tooling while collaborating with engineering and research teams to improve development velocity.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience with Python and/or Rust/C++, including tooling and service development.
• Experience building fleet or device management systems with OTA updates, versioning, staged rollouts, rollback strategies, and remote configuration.
• Hands-on experience with hardware-attached software testing, hardware-in-the-loop systems, simulation-based regression suites, and CI/CD gates beyond unit tests.
• Experience with observability for edge or field deployments, including telemetry pipelines, structured logging, and alerting.
• Experience with Docker and edge-appropriate orchestration or agent frameworks for heterogeneous robot compute.
• Track record of scaling deployment and testing infrastructure from ad hoc systems into reliable, repeatable processes.

Nice to have

• Exposure to functional safety concepts for physical systems.
• Background in electric vehicle OTA, industrial IoT, or similar field-reliability and fleet-management domains.
• Experience scaling deployment and testing infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work with physical robots deployed in real industrial factories.
• High ownership and direct responsibility for building and hardening production systems.
• IC-heavy role focused on personally solving difficult robotics deployment and reliability problems.
• Close collaboration with engineering and research teams.