Senior Hardware Developer (EMC)

Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous floor-scrubbing robots, including the Neo and Kas platforms, for customers across five continents.

What you will do

• Turn concepts into evaluation kits, breadboards, quick-turn PCBs, test fixtures, and instrumented prototypes.
• Own schematic capture, multilayer PCB layout, board bring-up, debugging, and testing across analog, digital, power, sensor, safety, and motor-control domains.
• Design prototypes for EMC, EMI, signal integrity, power integrity, filtering, shielding, grounding, and controlled return paths.
• Run in-house pre-compliance testing for emissions, ESD, EFT, and surge immunity; support external test-house campaigns and drive corrective redesigns.
• Evaluate LiDAR, Time-of-Flight sensors, encoders, failsafe brakes, and other mechatronic subsystems under realistic operating conditions.
• Support safety analysis, production handoff, DFM, BOM and second-source planning, and technical documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• 7+ years of relevant hardware design experience in robotics, safety-critical, medical, aerospace, automotive, or a comparable field.
• Strong schematic and multilayer PCB layout skills covering mixed-signal and power designs.
• Experience taking products through EMC certification, including chamber testing, root-cause analysis, mitigation, and successful retesting.
• Hands-on laboratory experience with board assembly, fine-pitch and BGA rework, fixtures, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and near-field probes.
• Working knowledge of functional safety standards and hardware safety integrity metrics, including IEC 61508, IEC 63327, and IEC 60335-2-72.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-current brushless motor drives, EMC troubleshooting, filter design, shielded cable termination, and failed-scan resolution.
• Experience with Altium, SI/PI simulation, and embedded or scripting development using C or Python.
• Prototype mechanical fabrication experience, including 3D printing, laser cutting, or basic machining.
• Standards and certification experience with UL, CSA, CE, IEC 60825, or intentional-radiator requirements.
• Experience with robots, complex electromechanical systems, safety-critical hardware, ROS, or Linux.

Culture & Benefits

• Research and development work focused on next-generation autonomous floor-scrubbing robots.
• Rapid prototype iteration with hands-on work in an in-house laboratory.
• Opportunity to influence architecture before designs enter the production program.
• Emphasis on documenting engineering decisions, rejected approaches, component choices, and prototype failure signatures.