Electrical Engineer – Hardware Systems (AI)

Location: United States, including Mountain View, Boulder, Virginia, the San Francisco Bay Area, and San Mateo; remote work is available across Eastern and Central Time Zones in the US, with some Bay Area positions onsite.

Salary: $200,000–$300,000 annually, plus equity; compensation varies by experience, expertise, and location.

Company

hirify.global is partnering with a well-funded, early-stage AI hardware startup developing an AI inference platform that combines custom silicon, systems, and software.

What you will do

• Design accelerator boards and system hardware, including schematics, PCB layout guidance, high-speed digital interfaces, clocking, and power delivery.
• Develop power delivery networks for high-performance accelerator silicon and optimize board-to-package interfaces with packaging and signal/power integrity engineers.
• Bring up new hardware in the laboratory through electrical characterization, debugging, and validation.
• Select components and drive design-for-manufacturing and design-for-test activities through fabrication, assembly, validation, and yield improvement.
• Collaborate with silicon, packaging, firmware, signal integrity, power integrity, and thermal engineering teams to resolve system-level electrical issues.
• Use and help develop AI-assisted engineering workflows for hardware design, validation, and debugging.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering and 5+ years of experience designing complex board- or system-level hardware.
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB design using Altium, Cadence Allegro, or comparable tools.
• Hands-on experience designing high-speed digital systems with DDR/LPDDR, PCIe, SerDes, or similar interfaces.
• Deep experience with board bring-up, electrical debugging, and laboratory validation.
• Strong understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, electromagnetic compatibility, and board-level electrical design.
• Ability to collaborate across multiple engineering disciplines in a fast-paced startup environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-current power delivery networks for GPUs, AI accelerators, or other high-performance computing systems.
• Server or hyperscale platform design experience.
• FPGA-based hardware development or low-level firmware bring-up experience.
• Thermal co-design experience.
• Familiarity with electromagnetic simulation tools such as ANSYS HFSS or SIwave.

Culture & Benefits

• Early-stage startup environment with cross-functional engineering collaboration.
• Meaningful equity participation.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) plan.
• Generous paid time off.