Sr. Embedded Systems Platform Manager

Location: San Jose, CA, United States

Company

hirify.global manufactures discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components for automotive, industrial, computing, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical applications.

What you will do

• Define and lead the embedded systems platform strategy across IC development, validation, qualification, and applications support.
• Establish architecture standards and reusable hardware, firmware, scripts, and documentation for emulation and validation.
• Architect bench-level test systems for functional, parametric, and closed-loop validation of digital power controllers.
• Implement and validate digital control loops, correlate behavioral models with measured IC performance, and resolve model-to-silicon discrepancies.
• Support pre-silicon design reviews and silicon bring-up through testability planning, electrical characterization, automation, and commissioning procedures.
• Partner with applications and product engineering to reproduce issues, debug in the lab, and harden platforms for reuse across programs.

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in embedded systems, power electronics, or mixed-signal IC validation, with progression to staff-level scope.
• Hands-on experience with digital control-loop implementation, including compensation design, z-domain analysis, Type II/III, or state-space approaches.
• FPGA-based emulation or prototyping experience with VHDL or Verilog at the RTL or integration level.
• Strong instrumentation skills with oscilloscopes, network analyzers, power analyzers, and electronic loads.
• Bench automation experience using Python and SCPI, plus familiarity with buck, boost, LLC, and PSFB converter topologies and small-signal modeling.

Nice to have

• Experience with PMBus, AVSBus, or I2C/SPI digital power management protocols.
• Mixed-signal IC characterization, product engineering, or semiconductor applications experience.
• Proficiency with SPICE, MATLAB/Simulink, or Python control libraries.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive health care coverage and financial support programs.
• Open and collaborative work culture with unique career paths.
• Stable business with opportunities to work globally and locally.
• Employment with equal employment and advancement opportunities.