Diagnostic Engineer (AI Hardware)

Location: Mountain View, United States (HQ) or remote; hybrid work arrangement. The position requires compliance with U.S. export control laws.

Salary: $160,000–$275,000 for early career, $175,000–$400,000 for mid career, or $250,000–$600,000 for senior career, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is a startup building vertically integrated hardware and software systems, from silicon to systems, for training and running large machine-learning workloads for AGI.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end diagnostics test suite for accelerator boards and racks.
• Develop diagnostic tools for AI chips, PCIe, HBM, power, and thermal systems.
• Define manufacturing test coverage and pass/fail criteria.
• Provide JDM and ODM partners with documentation, tooling, and hands-on debugging support through NPI and production ramp.
• Triage and identify root causes of manufacturing test escapes and field failures.
• Build and maintain CI/CD infrastructure, track yield, test coverage, and defect density, and report quality metrics.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in systems diagnostics, hardware validation, or manufacturing test.
• Expertise in Python and C/C++ for test automation and low-level device programming.
• Deep knowledge of PCIe, memory hierarchies, power management, and I/O.
• Proven experience managing test relationships with ODM, JDM, or CM partners.
• Experience building and scaling test automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Proficiency with Linux system tools for hardware interrogation and fault analysis.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-moving, low-overhead startup environment.
• Strong communication skills across engineering, manufacturing, and executive audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI accelerator, GPU, or custom ASIC diagnostics.
• Familiarity with HBM or advanced 2.5D/3D packaging test considerations.
• Exposure to rack-scale management technologies including BMC, PDU, IPMI, or Redfish.
• Experience writing diagnostics for bare-metal or pre-OS environments.
• Familiarity with error injection frameworks and fault coverage analysis.
• Prior NPI experience at a semiconductor or early-stage hardware startup.
• Familiarity with Linux drivers, PCIe enumeration, or register-level programming.

Culture & Benefits

• Four weeks of accrued PTO, 12 company holidays, and up to three weeks of remote work.
• Company-subsidized medical, dental, vision, life, HSA, FSA, 401(k) with a 5% company contribution, long-term disability, and travel insurance.
• $1,500 annual professional development budget and up to $1,000 for home-office setup.
• Onsite team meals, commuter support, monthly perks and cellular/internet reimbursements.
• Paid mental health benefits and parental, pregnancy disability, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, and family-support benefits.