HIL Test Engineer - System Test (Autonomous Transit)

Location: Remote, with some travel or on-site presence expected for integration campaigns, test environment bring-up, and major release demonstrations.

Company

hirify.global is developing a carbon-neutral autonomous public transportation system using standardized vehicles operating on dedicated roadways.

What you will do

• Develop and execute Hardware-in-the-Loop test plans, procedures, and automated test cases for integrated autonomous transit behavior.
• Build, configure, maintain, and improve HIL benches, test harnesses, simulated and real hardware interfaces, network setups, timing synchronization, and data acquisition.
• Translate requirements, operational scenarios, safety needs, and regression concerns into repeatable tests with clear pass/fail criteria.
• Execute and troubleshoot tests involving embedded controllers, vehicle subsystems, autonomy interfaces, communications, diagnostics, fault handling, and degraded modes.
• Analyze logs, telemetry, traces, dashboards, and test data; track failures through resolution and verify fixes.
• Improve automation, simulators, dashboards, data pipelines, reporting workflows, and readiness evidence in collaboration with engineering, safety, quality, operations, and deployment teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, robotics, aerospace, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical field.
• 4+ years of experience in system test, HIL testing, embedded systems test, systems integration, product validation, autonomous systems, robotics, transportation, aerospace, automotive, medical devices, industrial automation, or comparable complex hardware/software systems.
• Experience developing or executing integration-level or system-level tests, including scenario design, procedures, acceptance criteria, execution, analysis, and reporting.
• Experience with complex electromechanical or cyber-physical systems involving software, controls, sensors, networks, hardware, safety constraints, and operational procedures.
• Ability to analyze logs, telemetry, traces, test data, and system behavior using Python, dashboards, log viewers, notebooks, or equivalent tools.
• Ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams and communicate technical risks, test outcomes, and blockers clearly.

Nice to have

• Experience building or extending HIL benches, test harnesses, simulators, automated regression frameworks, or continuous-integration test execution.
• Experience with embedded systems, controller testing, vehicle networks, diagnostics, fault injection, real-time systems, or hardware/software integration.
• Ability to read, modify, or write C/C++ for embedded systems, test harnesses, or low-level debugging.
• Experience with autonomous vehicles, automated transit, railway systems, robotics, aerospace, automotive ADAS, or other safety-critical mobility platforms.
• Experience with requirements, issue-tracking, lifecycle, or transportation and safety standards tools and frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with hands-on laboratory, vehicle, test-track, and project-site activities when required.
• Cross-functional collaboration across autonomy, vehicle hardware, embedded software, systems engineering, safety, infrastructure, operations, quality, and deployment.
• Work spanning simulation, software-based test environments, HIL testing, lab testing, vehicle testing, commissioning, and release readiness.
• Opportunity to improve practical test infrastructure, automation, tooling, and evidence for a safety-critical autonomous transit system.