Firmware & Diagnostics Architect (Embedded Systems)

Location: San Jose, United States of America

Annual salary: $185,500–$344,500 in California; incentive compensation, bonus, equity, and benefits may also apply.

Company

hirify.global develops technology for high-performance computing, prototyping, and hardware acceleration systems.

What you will do

• Lead architecture for firmware, diagnostics, telemetry, health monitoring, observability, fault detection, and automated recovery.
• Define scalable platform-management and serviceability strategies across multiple product generations.
• Lead board bring-up, system validation, manufacturing test, field diagnostics, design reviews, and technical readiness assessments.
• Define validation methodologies for firmware, connectivity, memory, power, thermal, and performance subsystems.
• Lead investigations of critical customer and internal issues, including root-cause analysis across hardware, firmware, operating systems, and infrastructure.
• Influence technical direction, mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, and drive standards, architecture reviews, and technology roadmaps.

Requirements

• BS with at least 12 years of experience, MS with at least 10 years, or PhD with at least 8 years; additionally, 12+ years in firmware, embedded systems, platform software, or hardware diagnostics.
• Strong C/C++ development expertise for embedded systems.
• Experience architecting complex firmware or diagnostics solutions.
• Deep understanding of system architecture, hardware/software interactions, and low-level debugging.
• Experience with platform bring-up, system validation, and hardware debugging.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and technical leadership abilities.
• Ability to combine architectural strategy with deep technical debugging and lead cross-functional initiatives.
• Ability to influence without authority, drive alignment across engineering teams, and deliver technology that scales across product generations.

Nice to have

• Platform firmware architecture and Board Management Controllers (BMC).
• Embedded Linux, PCIe, Ethernet, DDR, high-speed interfaces, and FPGA-based systems.
• Diagnostics and health-monitoring frameworks, telemetry and observability infrastructure.
• Hardware emulation or prototyping systems and automated validation or regression testing.
• Manufacturing and field diagnostics, performance analysis, and failure triage.
• JTAG, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and hardware debug tools.
• Python, Tcl, Bash, or similar automation technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional work with hardware, software, validation, manufacturing, and customer support teams.
• Paid vacation and paid holidays.
• 401(k) plan with employer match and employee stock purchase plan.
• Medical, dental, and vision plan options.
• Potential eligibility for incentive compensation, bonus, and equity.