Student (Hardware Engineering) – Optical Transport

Location: Gdynia, Poland; at least 20 hours per week in the Gdynia office

Salary: 6,000 PLN per month for a full-time position

Company

hirify.global develops telecom systems, including optical transport infrastructure and hardware controller modules.

What you will do

• Support schematic capture, design reviews, and PCB layout guidance for hardware controller modules.
• Participate in board bring-up and debugging with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and power supplies.
• Write and execute hardware and integration test cases, record results, and report issues.
• Research components using datasheets and assess alternatives, availability, and lifecycle status.
• Contribute to hardware specifications, test reports, and production test documentation.
• Support PCB production testing and collaborate with Systems Engineering, FPGA, Mechanics, Software, and Operations teams.

Requirements

• Third-year student of Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Automation and Robotics, or a related field.
• Availability to work at least 20 hours per week onsite in the Gdynia office.
• Understanding of analog and digital circuits, including passive components, transistors, power supplies, logic, and I2C, SPI, and UART buses.
• Basic knowledge of microcontroller or microprocessor systems, memory, and peripheral interfaces.
• Experience with an EDA tool such as KiCad, Altium, OrCAD, or Eagle, including reading and drawing schematics.
• Basic laboratory and soldering skills; English at B2 level or higher for reading datasheets and communicating with colleagues.

Nice to have

• Personal hardware projects, student science club participation, or contest team experience.
• Embedded C/C++ on microcontrollers such as STM32, AVR, ESP32, or Raspberry Pi Pico.
• VHDL, Verilog, FPGA, or CPLD knowledge.
• Signal integrity, DDR memory, DC/DC converter design, telecom standards, EMC, or Python for test automation and data analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• Long-term paid internship with dedicated mentoring and a learning plan based on real product work.
• Flexible working hours arranged around classes and exam sessions.
• Hands-on experience with professional laboratory equipment and telecom hardware shipped to customers.
• English lessons during working hours and access to an internal training program.
• Multisport Card, sports activities, and a friendly team-oriented culture.
• Modern Gdynia office with a gym and playroom near SKM/PKM stations.