Test Infrastructure Engineer (AI)

Location: On-site in San Jose, United States, or Taiwan; travel to manufacturing partners as needed.

Company

hirify.global builds chips, racks, software, and manufacturing infrastructure for frontier AI inference systems.

What you will do

• Build and operate the test execution platform for factory tests across stations, servers, and racks.
• Provision and manage the Linux fleet through OS imaging, network boot, configuration management, and lifecycle automation.
• Design and maintain networking for test stations and racks in collaboration with factory partners.
• Build data pipelines for test runs, logs, hardware genealogy, test history, yield, and throughput.
• Manage versioned releases, canary deployments, and rollbacks of factory test packages.
• Build monitoring and alerting, debug production-blocking infrastructure issues, integrate MES/SFIS and internal data platforms, and automate failure analysis toward AI-assisted triage.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure.
• Strong Linux administration skills, including boot processes, package management, systemd, storage, and command-line debugging.
• Solid networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, VPNs, and server room or datacenter network layouts.
• Experience with distributed systems that run across many machines and remain operational when some machines fail.
• Strong coding skills in Python, C++, or Rust, with experience building tools and services.
• Experience with automation, configuration management such as Ansible or Terraform, and CI/CD.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, and debugging production issues.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Willingness to work onsite in San Jose or Taiwan and travel to manufacturing partners as needed.

Nice to have

• Bare-metal server fleets, lab or datacenter automation, or HPC clusters such as PXE or Slurm.
• Server management interfaces such as BMC, IPMI, or Redfish.
• Manufacturing test infrastructure, test automation platforms, or factory software such as MES or SFIS.
• Data pipelines for test results, yield analysis, or hardware genealogy.
• AI servers, GPU or accelerator systems, or other high-performance computing platforms.
• Experience working with contract manufacturers; Mandarin is a plus for Taiwan-based candidates.
• Experience bringing first-generation hardware into production at a fast-paced startup.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully in-person work in San Jose and Taipei.
• Competitive compensation packages with generous equity packages.
• Comprehensive insurance coverage and other top-of-market benefits.
• Technical staff contribute to engineering and research as needed.