Hardware Test Technician - Lab Manager

Location: On-site in Fremont, California, United States; this is a physical lab role.

Salary: $115,000–$135,000 USD base salary annually; final pay varies by background, skills, experience, and US geographic tier. Total compensation also includes RSUs and benefits.

Company

hirify.global builds a family safety platform with a mobile app, Tile tracking devices, Pet GPS trackers, and connected hardware serving more than 102.4 million monthly active users across over 180 countries.

What you will do

• Run the hardware test lab, execute electrical, power, functional, wireless, environmental, and product-reliability test sequences, and maintain traceable records.
• Own lab equipment, calibration, fixtures, parts inventory, purchasing, services, deliveries, ESD controls, and safe battery/material handling.
• Triage customer and field returns, reproduce failures, identify likely root causes, trend defects, and route deeper analysis to engineering.
• Build test fixtures, jigs, cabling, interfaces, and instrumentation; perform precise hand soldering, PCB modifications, and small-board rework.
• Use AI tools and light scripting to build device and instrument test harnesses and automate repeatable test sequences.
• Track samples, shipments, beta materials, and device logistics while improving lab safety, organization, documentation, and scalability.

Requirements

• Several years of hands-on experience in an electronics or hardware test lab; consumer electronics experience is a plus.
• Associate degree in electronics, electrical engineering technology, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Self-directed, organized, safety-minded, and able to run a lab independently with strong documentation and data-logging habits.
• Clear communication skills, early problem escalation, and curiosity about following failures to root cause.
• Excellent hand soldering and small-board rework skills, including BGA, QFN, fine-pitch packages down to 0201/01005, complex rework, and PCB modifications.
• Experience with oscilloscopes, multimeters, power analyzers, power supplies, fixture and cable building, light scripting, test-fixture design, and ESD-safe practices.
• Experience with electrical and power measurements, battery charge/discharge and capacity testing, ESD testing, drop and temperature/humidity testing, thermal cycling, continuity checks, component troubleshooting, and schematic reading.
• Some familiarity with basic RF/wireless bench checks, such as transmit-power or signal-strength measurements.
• Experience with defect analysis, production quality, customer or field quality, returns analysis, and linking field failures to root cause.
• Some familiarity with AI tools and willingness to learn; deep AI experience is not required.

Nice to have

• Product-reliability testing such as tumble, mechanical shock, random or sine vibration, thermal shock, HAST, HALT, and HASS.
• Ingress and durability testing, including IPX7/IP68, salt fog, corrosion, button and connector life cycling, and chemical or materials exposure.
• Broader mechanical test-rig experience and knowledge of ASTM or ISO test standards.
• OTA RF testing in an anechoic chamber, TRP/TIS, and GPS/GNSS testing with a constellation simulator.
• Pre-compliance or certification testing involving FCC, UL, or IEC.
• IPC J-STD-001, IPC-A-610, or ESD certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven culture guided by integrity, direct communication, member-focused decisions, and high-impact execution.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans fully paid for employees.
• Paid parental leave, flexible PTO, company holidays, and summer and winter shutdowns.
• 401(k) with company matching, mental wellness and EAP programs, and learning and development opportunities.
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for remote work, plus free hirify.global Platinum Membership and Tile trackers.
• hirify.global is otherwise remote-first, but this position requires regular on-site work in the physical lab.