Senior Systems Test Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Atlanta, United States — hybrid; remote options in New York City, Florida, and Texas; Seattle and Colorado are also listed. Proximity to Atlanta and willingness to travel up to 25% are required.

Salary: $130K–$160K annually, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is a Series A startup developing autonomous ground support equipment and self-driving vehicles for airlines and airport ground service providers.

What you will do

• Lead verification and validation of dependable, safety-critical autonomous ground support systems in airport driving environments.
• Develop and maintain test plans and protocols covering autonomous vehicle systems, subsystems, operational design domains, and edge cases.
• Execute manual and automated testing in simulation, closed-course, and live operational environments, including vehicle operation and monitoring.
• Collect and analyze diagnostics, LiDAR, radar, camera, GPS, and incident data to evaluate performance and identify issues.
• Collaborate with autonomy, hardware, and safety teams on issue reporting, root-cause analysis, fix validation, and test feedback loops.
• Build test automation, reporting, and regression-tracking tools; support triage, release readiness, and test-driven development mentoring.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mechatronics, Aerospace, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in vehicle testing, embedded systems, and/or robotics.
• Familiarity with automotive or autonomous-vehicle test procedures in real-world and simulation environments.
• Familiarity with structured test processes such as the V-model and HIL/SIL testing, test automation, and data analysis tools.
• Strong debugging, organizational, analytical, and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.
• Ability to communicate technical issues and solutions across all organizational levels.
• Willingness to work hands-on in a fast-paced startup with distributed, multidisciplinary teams.
• Must be near Atlanta and willing to travel up to 25%.

Nice to have

• MS or PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience developing, testing, or deploying autonomous vehicles, autonomous systems, robotics, or ADAS.
• Experience with DOORS, Jama, Polarion, Enterprise Architect, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with safety standards including ISO 26262, ISO 21448, UL 4600, IEC 61508, ANSI B56.5, ISO 3691, and ANSI 15.08.
• Familiarity with airside driving environments at major global airports.
• Experience with data science and statistical analysis.
• Located in or willing to relocate to Atlanta.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role in a fast-paced Series A startup environment.
• Work with distributed, multidisciplinary teams developing autonomous aviation and ground-handling solutions.
• Hybrid work in Atlanta, with remote options listed for selected United States locations.
• Salary of $130K–$160K annually plus equity.
• Travel of up to 25% is required.