Sr. Software Test Automation Engineer - HIL (Medical Devices)

Location: Mounds View, Minnesota, United States; onsite at least 4 days per week. Other location: Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Candidates must possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and throughout employment. U.S. work authorization sponsorship is offered only for Principal-level roles and above.

Salary: $103,200–$154,800 USD annually for U.S. locations excluding Puerto Rico and specific California locations. The position is eligible for the hirify.global Incentive Plan.

Company

hirify.global develops medical technologies designed to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life, serving patients across more than 150 countries.

What you will do

• Test the functionality and performance of systems software in standalone and hardware-in-the-loop test environments.
• Develop and execute manual test plans and scripts to detect software defects.
• Verify that systems software meets technical and functional requirements.
• Analyze workflows, document test results, and recommend quality improvements.
• Work with engineers to resolve software defects and diagnose or improve product configuration for current and future models.
• Apply current testing software technologies and hardware-in-the-loop testing methods to embedded or medical systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 4 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree and at least 2 years of relevant experience, or a PhD with 0 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing in an embedded or medical-device environment, including integrating hardware, software, and simulation-based test setups to validate system performance and reliability.
• For degrees earned outside the United States, a degree meeting the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required for baccalaureate-level eligibility.
• Unrestricted U.S. work authorization is required at hire and throughout employment because this role is below Principal level.

Nice to have

• Expert knowledge of medical product verification, IEC 62304, and FDA guidance in a technical discipline, preferably software-related computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering.
• Experience debugging hardware with oscilloscopes and function generators.
• Experience writing, executing, and maintaining Python or comparable-language test automation scripts for functional, regression, and system-level testing, including test frameworks, reusable libraries, log and result analysis, failure debugging, and integration into verification workflows.
• Experience writing technical reports and using test-case management or repository tools such as Polarion, TFS, TestRail, or Jama.
• Strong work ethic, entrepreneurial drive, written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Ability to collaborate with systems, mechanical, electrical, software, and QA engineers to discover, document, and resolve integration issues and meet quality and regulatory needs.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular employee benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance; HSA; healthcare FSA; life insurance; disability coverage; paid time off; paid holidays; and sick-time provisions where required.
• Benefits also include 401(k) contributions and matching, incentive plans, employee stock purchase plan, employee assistance program, tuition assistance or reimbursement, dependent daycare spending account, and well-being resources.
• Work is performed onsite at least four days per week in a collaborative medical-device engineering environment.