Test Strategy Engineer

Location: On-site in San Jose, United States; willingness to travel internationally to manufacturing partners, including Taiwan, is required.

Company

hirify.global builds hardware for frontier intelligence by co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing systems focused on throughput and latency across prefill and decode workloads.

What you will do

• Define and own the overall test strategy and coverage map across silicon, firmware, boards, servers, and racks from EVT/DVT/PVT validation through production.
• Design test systems and frameworks covering test structure, versioning, gating, and execution across labs and factories.
• Review domain test plans, identify coverage gaps and duplication, and balance coverage against test time.
• Build regression gating for firmware, drivers, and test packages on representative hardware before release.
• Define pass/fail criteria, retest policies, and diagnostics, and convert them into production procedures.
• Lead cross-domain failure triage, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and improvements to tests, screening, and diagnostics.

Requirements

• Experience owning the test strategy or test systems for at least one hardware product from bring-up into production.
• Hands-on experience with low-level firmware, board-level, and system-level testing.
• Experience designing regression gating or CI for hardware and firmware.
• Strong debugging skills across hardware, firmware, and software using logs and lab tools.
• Clear communication across teams and comfort making coverage and risk tradeoffs explicit.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Willingness to work on-site in San Jose and travel internationally to manufacturing partners.

Nice to have

• 8+ years in test engineering, test architecture, system validation, or test automation for hardware products.
• Experience with server, rack, GPU, or accelerator systems, including post-silicon bring-up and rack-level L10/L11 integration testing.
• Experience with BMC, BIOS, PCIe, high-speed interconnects, power and thermal validation.
• Hardware-in-the-loop test systems.
• Factory test, test stations, or work with contract manufacturers and ODMs.
• Yield analysis and data-driven test optimization.
• Experience bringing first-generation hardware into production at a fast-paced startup.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully in-person team in San Jose with cross-disciplinary engineering and research work.
• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage.
• $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits.
• $2,500 per month housing subsidy for employees living within walking distance of the office.
• Relocation support for employees moving to San Jose.
• Wellness benefits, daily lunch and dinner at the office, and an unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification.