Senior Electrical Engineer - ATE (Contractor) (Power Electronics)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States; onsite role

Hourly compensation: $62–$77 USD per hour, depending on experience and other business factors.

Company

hirify.global develops clean energy products, including home energy storage systems and virtual power plant technology.

What you will do

• Design tester interface boards for IoT devices, power electronics systems, DC/DC converters, and inverters.
• Bring up and test systems to validate functionality, optimize performance, and evaluate critical characteristics.
• Create test and validation mechanisms for PCB assemblies and complete systems, including custom test cards and apparatus.
• Collaborate with mechanical engineering on bed-of-nails fixtures and work across mechanical, thermal, reliability, and firmware functions.
• Own the electrical aspects of systems from design through prototyping, validation, and manufacturing.
• Debug and troubleshoot designs down to the component level.

Requirements

• BS in Electrical Engineering and approximately 5 years of experience in power electronics design.
• Experience with battery management systems, inverters, and charging systems.
• Proficiency with Altium Designer schematic capture and PCB layout, including collaboration with PCB fabrication and assembly houses.
• Strong laboratory skills with oscilloscopes, impedance analyzers, sources, and loads for power conversion testing in high-voltage, high-current environments.
• Experience with prototyping, rework, conduction and hot-air soldering, paste and flux application, and cleaning.
• Familiarity with embedded control, microcontrollers, PLDs, analog circuits, power supplies, mixed-signal design, noise analysis, and grounding techniques.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a cross-functional engineering team developing clean energy products.
• Hands-on work spanning simulation, laboratory hardware, product validation, and high-volume production.
• Inclusive workplace and equal opportunity employment practices.
• Compensation is determined based on experience, job level, location, and other business considerations.