Software Engineer - HIL (Rust)

Location: Austin, Texas, United States, or South San Francisco, California, United States

Base salary: $151,000–$281,000 USD per year, plus equity compensation for full-time employees.

Company

hirify.global develops devices that create a bidirectional interface with the brain, including technology intended to restore movement and sight and enable digital communication.

What you will do

• Build and maintain hardware-in-the-loop systems using real surgical robot hardware, production software, and firmware.
• Write automated HIL tests covering integration, timing, faults, and system bring-up.
• Define pass/fail criteria, test coverage, and acceptance requirements.
• Integrate software-in-the-loop, HIL, and hardware acceptance testing into a CI pipeline with logs, traces, and reproducible results.
• Own release-gating tests, reproduce failures that escape simulation or HIL, and close coverage gaps.

Requirements

• Strong Rust skills and Python experience for test tooling and analysis.
• Comfort working close to drivers, firmware, and communication buses.
• Experience with HIL, test rigs, or system-level verification for robots, vehicles, or similar hardware.
• Experience debugging asynchronous and concurrent systems, RPC, telemetry, and timing failures across software and firmware.
• Experience building automated test pipelines.
• Strong focus on repeatability, edge cases, and traceability; effective use of AI agents while maintaining quality.

Nice to have

• Bazel experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on brain-computer interface technology and surgical robotics.
• Growth potential and advancement for high-impact contributions.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance through a PPO plan.
• Paid holidays, flexible time off, commuter benefits, and provided meals.
• Equity in the form of RSUs, a 401(k) plan, and parental leave for eligible full-time employees.