High-Speed Hardware Engineer (Automotive)

Location: Bucharest, Romania; hybrid work with office and remote flexibility, typically three onsite days per week. Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time is required depending on project needs.

Annual gross base salary: RON 202,500–297,000. Variable compensation and allowances may also be available depending on the position.

Company

hirify.global develops automotive, lifestyle, and digital transformation technologies, including infotainment, safety, efficiency, and connected technology platforms.

What you will do

• Design and implement multicore processors and SoC/SIP solutions for Intelligent Cockpit projects and products.
• Integrate memory, storage, networking, display, peripheral, and high-speed interfaces including PCIe, UFS, USB, Ethernet, MIPI CSI/DSI, DisplayPort, HDMI, and LPDDR.
• Develop, test, and verify analog and digital functional blocks within complex hardware architectures, including SoC/SIP and NOR-flash components.
• Create and review processor-related schematics, system-level designs, and SoC/high-speed layouts.
• Test and analyze application and driver software with dedicated infotainment hardware, and support hardware bring-up, debugging, measurement, and documentation.
• Collaborate with processor suppliers and global Software, Mechanical, Quality, Manufacturing, and hardware teams while supporting customer requirement and BOM analysis and legacy platforms.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, or an appropriate equivalent qualification.
• At least 3 years of hardware development experience focused on SoCs/processors or high-speed interfaces.
• Good knowledge of automotive industry requirements.
• Good knowledge of schematic, layout, and simulation tools such as Mentor XpeditionVX2.x, Graphics, and SPICE, as well as Microsoft applications.
• Basic understanding of processor architectures and their interfaces in embedded designs.
• Knowledge of high-speed interfaces such as UFS, PCIe Gen5, multigigabit Ethernet, and USB; video interfaces such as MIPI-DSI/CSI, DisplayPort, and HDMI; and low-speed interfaces such as O-/Q-SPI, SPI, CAN, Audio, and UART.
• Good spoken and written English, proactive behavior, and good communication skills.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of functional safety.
• Experience with hardware debugging and laboratory tools such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
• Basic knowledge of command-shell programming and shell debugging for controlling hardware units.
• Awareness of JTAG, Boundary-scan, Boot-mode configuration, and related debug interfaces.
• Familiarity with TeamCenter, ALM, JIRA, Doors NextGen, and other engineering tools.
• Structured, organized, result-oriented, analytical, and problem-solving approach.
• Ability to work in a global team across Romania, Germany, the US, and China.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment balancing flexibility with in-person collaboration.
• Employee discounts on JBL, hirify.global Kardon, AKG, and other products.
• Training and continuing education through hirify.global University and other development opportunities.
• Wellness benefits, paid time off, holidays, sick and family leave, and health and wellbeing support where applicable.
• Inclusive and diverse environment with employee recognition through the “Be Brilliant” program.