Test and Validation Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in Alameda, United States. The role includes travel to the flight test site. Relocation support is available if applicable.

Company

hirify.global develops and operates full-size autonomous cargo aircraft capable of carrying two tons of payload over more than a thousand nautical miles.

What you will do

• Build, bring up, and maintain hardware-in-the-loop benches with flight computers, actuators, sensors, and power hardware.
• Maintain software-in-the-loop environments and real-time simulations, integrating vehicle, sensor, and actuator models.
• Develop validators, automated regression testing, fault-injection systems, data pipelines, and analysis tools for simulation, bench, and flight data.
• Design and run environmental and durability tests, including vibration, thermal, and ingress testing, with instrumentation and data acquisition.
• Write test plans and procedures from requirements and failure mode analyses, report results, and investigate anomalies through root-cause analysis.
• Support aircraft ground and flight testing with validation and data analysis, including travel to the flight test site.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, aerospace, or computer engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience testing complex electromechanical or embedded systems.
• Proficiency in Python and working knowledge of C or C++.
• Experience building or operating hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, or automated test systems.
• Hands-on electrical debugging skills and familiarity with common vehicle data buses.
• Ability to work on-site in Alameda, United States.

Nice to have

• Test experience with aircraft, UAS, spacecraft, or automotive systems.
• Experience with Speedgoat, dSPACE, NI, or other real-time simulation platforms.
• Environmental testing experience according to DO-160 or MIL-STD-810.
• Experience with actuators, motor controllers, power systems, embedded continuous integration, FMEA, reliability analysis, or flight and vehicle test data.

Culture & Benefits

• Early-stage equity and competitive compensation.
• Employee health benefit plans.
• 6% retirement matching.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Free lunches, snacks, stocked office refrigerators, and access to AI tools and subscriptions.