Senior Electrical Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: South San Francisco, United States — onsite

Salary: $155K–$190K per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global is a Series A company developing autonomous ground-handling tractors for airlines and ground service providers.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end electrical architecture of autonomous tractor platforms, including harnesses, power distribution, CAN bus topology, sensor wiring, grounding, and shielding.
• Create and maintain authoritative wiring diagrams and electrical schematics for vehicle build, integration, and field servicing.
• Lead fleet-level fault analysis and root-cause investigations, translating failures into design improvements, updated build standards, and retrofit plans.
• Own electrical bring-up and validation for new platforms and major upfits, including acceptance criteria, commissioning procedures, and verification checklists.
• Work with harness manufacturers and integration partners to specify, review, and qualify electrical assemblies.
• Drive component selection and integration while partnering with software and autonomy teams on hardware bring-up, sensor calibration, and hardware-software debugging.

Requirements

• 5+ years of electrical engineering experience in a hardware-centric domain such as automotive, autonomous vehicles, robotics, aerospace, or industrial equipment.
• Deep expertise in vehicle electrical systems, including harness and connector design, power distribution, CAN bus and other vehicle networking protocols, grounding, and EMC practices.
• Ability to read, create, and own complex electrical schematics and wiring diagrams as primary design deliverables.
• Strong electrical fault-analysis and root-cause investigation experience, including translating field-failure data into actionable design improvements.
• Experience designing for reliability and serviceability in harsh environments involving vibration, thermal cycling, moisture, and contamination.
• Experience across the full product lifecycle from architecture and design through bring-up, field deployment, and sustaining engineering.
• Ability to work independently, set technical direction, and drive cross-functional decisions without requiring a large team structure.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous-vehicle or mobile-robot electrical systems, multi-sensor integration, and embedded computing hardware.
• Familiarity with high-voltage vehicle architectures, including their safety and isolation requirements.
• Experience working with harness fabrication vendors and contract manufacturers to specify and qualify electrical assemblies.
• Experience defining and executing electrical validation and verification programs, including bring-up procedures and acceptance-test criteria.
• Exposure to vehicle electrical engineering or safety-critical system standards.
• Early-stage company experience building electrical engineering infrastructure and design standards from scratch.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time onsite work in South San Francisco.
• Direct influence on next-generation autonomous vehicle platforms across engineering, production, and field operations.
• Equity is included in the compensation package.