Senior Manager, Software Test & Validation (Power Electronics)

Location: San Francisco, California, United States; onsite work model

Salary: $220,000–$347,500 USD annually; actual compensation varies by experience, education, and skills.

Company

hirify.global recycles lithium-ion batteries, recovers and redeploys critical minerals, and builds software-defined energy assets and second-life battery systems.

What you will do

• Lead teams responsible for SIL/HIL simulation, manufacturing test software, site commissioning tooling, and fleet data analytics.
• Architect real-time SIL/HIL infrastructure and high-fidelity virtual plant models for power electronics and site-level controllers using Typhoon HIL, Opal-RT, or similar platforms.
• Integrate automated SIL/HIL regression suites into containerized CI/CD pipelines as release gates for embedded and site-level software.
• Develop factory test, firmware flashing, calibration, serialization, diagnostics, and end-of-line testing systems across prototype and high-volume production.
• Deliver commissioning tools for energy storage deployments, including communications verification and automated site acceptance testing.
• Build telemetry, observability, health-monitoring, anomaly-detection, and predictive-maintenance systems for deployed assets.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or a BS with equivalent depth.
• 10+ years of industry experience in software validation, HIL simulation, manufacturing test, and fleet reliability analytics for complex hardware systems, including the stated experience areas.
• 5+ years leading technical engineering teams.
• Proven experience architecting real-time simulation environments for high-frequency power electronics converters and distributed site controllers.
• Experience building automated factory test software, ICT/FCT/EOL frameworks, hardware bring-up utilities, and field commissioning systems across multiple hardware product lifecycles.
• Expert-level Python proficiency, including Pytest, Pandas, SciPy, time-series analysis, and predictive modeling; working fluency in Rust and C/C++ for inspecting, instrumenting, and debugging low-level code.
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for HIL targets, using Docker, and building scalable time-series telemetry architectures.
• Experience operating in high-voltage power electronics labs with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, and CAN/CAN-FD, Ethernet, Modbus, and SPI protocols.

Nice to have

• Experience validating grid-scale BESS, utility-interactive inverters, or mixed-chemistry or second-life EV battery installations against UL 1741, UL 1973, and IEEE 1547.
• Experience building prognostic algorithms that correlate factory EOL signatures with field telemetry to predict remaining useful life.
• Experience designing automated fault-injection hardware and breakout PCB interfaces for multi-rack HIL testbeds.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position with compensation commensurate with experience.
• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering organization across validation, test automation, manufacturing software, data, and reliability.
• Collaborate with power electronics controls, embedded firmware, hardware engineering, manufacturing operations, and field service teams.
• Work spans R&D bring-up, volume manufacturing, site deployment, and multi-year field operations.