AI Engineer (Robotics)

Location

Location: On-site in San Francisco, CA, United States

Salary

Salary range: $100,000 – $300,000 USD annually, depending on experience

Company

hirify.global is a startup focused on AI-driven robotics systems combining research and engineering.

What you will do

• Develop learning systems for robots including policies, world models, and vision-language-action models.
• Build and maintain simulation environments and evaluation frameworks for robotic tasks.
• Apply and advance computer vision and perception algorithms for autonomous robots.
• Construct pipelines connecting simulation and real-world robot deployment (real-to-sim and sim-to-real).
• Work with robot hardware, sensors, actuators, and embedded systems to prototype and test capabilities.
• Train and evaluate reinforcement-learning and imitation-learning systems for manipulation, locomotion, or mobile platforms.
• Integrate and experiment with robot platforms to validate algorithms in the physical world.
• Create tools and infrastructure that accelerate robotics research and development.
• Collaborate with external robotics companies and research labs on technical problems.

Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the US; visa sponsorship is not available
• Strong software skills in C++ and Python.
• Experience with deep learning, reinforcement learning, and computer vision.
• Experience developing and maintaining robotics simulation environments and real-to-sim/sim-to-real workflows.
• Practical experience with robot hardware, sensors, actuators, CAD/Blender, and embedded systems.
• Comfortable moving fluidly between research, engineering, experimentation, and product development.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with modern ML tools such as LLMs, Transformers, multimodal AI, diffusion models, or AI agents.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity participation expected at this stage.