Staff Hardware Systems Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA; on-site 4–5 days a week, with about 10% travel to test labs, the contract manufacturer, and customer warehouses.

Company

hirify.global develops vision-powered warehouse intelligence using autonomous drones and existing equipment to digitize inventory and supply-chain workflows.

What you will do

• Own hardware requirements and the verification and validation framework from system requirements through subsystem, technology-block, and interface requirements, maintaining traceability to evidence.
• Scout, characterize, and compare cameras, illumination, propulsion, wireless charging, batteries, and other technologies for future products.
• Integrate electrical, firmware, software, and autonomy components, including bring-up, integration testing, and root-cause analysis of interface failures.
• Design and execute V&V plans, test methods, rigs, fixtures, instrumentation, statistically based sampling plans, and design-of-experiments studies.
• Lead environmental and compliance testing, technical budgets, system-level hazard analysis, DFMEA input, design-review evidence, and engineering-change verification impact assessments.
• Connect field failures to requirements and tests and help define production test strategy with the contract manufacturer.

Requirements

• Experience owning requirements through V&V for an electromechanical product from concept to production, including subsystem decomposition, traceability, and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Experience integrating hardware with firmware and software in a robotic, embedded, autonomous, or complex electromechanical system, including bring-up and root-cause analysis of interface failures.
• Use of design of experiments, data analysis, statistically based sampling plans, confidence/reliability methods, AQL, or similar statistical approaches.
• Hands-on experience building test methods, rigs, fixtures, and data-acquisition systems, including measurement system analysis such as Gauge R&R.
• BS in an engineering field with 10+ years of relevant experience, or an MS with 8+ years of relevant experience; an MS is preferred.

Nice to have

• Environmental and compliance qualification with external labs, including shock and vibration, thermal cycling and condensation, IP ingress, and EMC/FCC.
• Camera characterization, illumination, lithium batteries, charging systems, and technology trade studies.
• Regulated product development in medical, aerospace, or automotive environments, with the ability to scale that rigor to a startup.
• Experience with drones/UAVs, material handling equipment, or robotics.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on individual-contributor role on a small, senior hardware team.
• Lab-heavy work performed on-site 4–5 days per week.
• Approximately 10% travel to test labs, the contract manufacturer, and customer warehouses.
• Ownership of verification for active products, with responsibility for establishing reusable requirements, verification, and environmental-test standards.