Hardware Integration and Test Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Cambridge, MA, United States; onsite

Salary: USD 126,000–288,600 per year

Company

hirify.global develops AI and robotics solutions that address fundamental challenges and enable intelligent machines.

What you will do

• Collaborate with design engineers and researchers to define system requirements and verification strategies.
• Assemble, integrate, and debug electromechanical subsystems through controlled power-up, resolving mechanical, electrical, and embedded interface issues.
• Design and operate instrumented test benches, HIL fixtures, roadkills, and dynamometers, selecting sensors, data acquisition systems, fixtures, and operating limits.
• Characterize motor and actuator torque, speed, current, efficiency, and thermal behavior; build and validate models and evaluate control strategies on hardware.
• Plan and execute subsystem and on-robot verification, automate testing and synchronized data collection, and compare measurements with requirements and models.
• Document setups, interfaces, bring-up procedures, models, and results; lead integration reviews and coordinate fault resolution.

Requirements

• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Hands-on electromechanical bring-up and troubleshooting, including reading drawings and schematics, modifying test setups, and identifying when specialist support is needed.
• Understanding of motors, drives, feedback sensors, and basic controls, with experience characterizing actuators and developing or validating models.
• Experience with instrumentation and data acquisition, including bench instruments and current, torque, or position sensors.
• Proficiency with Python, MATLAB, or similar tools for test scripting, analysis, visualization, and model-to-measurement comparison.
• Ability to turn incomplete requirements into test plans and acceptance criteria, isolate failures, and communicate reproducible results.
• Safe-work experience with moving machinery, rotating test equipment, hazardous voltages, and stored energy, including controlled power-up and operating limits.
• Comfort using AI tools for technical research, documentation, and routine tasks, with judgment to verify outputs and protect confidential information.

Nice to have

• Motor dynamometer commissioning or operation, including load control and thermal testing.
• Rust, microcontroller firmware, real-time operating systems, or hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• System identification, actuator friction and compliance modeling, or closed-loop control experiments.
• 3D CAD for test fixtures, machining, or rapid prototyping.
• Linux and embedded communications such as CAN, EtherCAT, or Ethernet.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time engineering work at the intersection of academic research and industry execution.
• Cross-functional collaboration with hardware, embedded software, controls, and research teams.
• Equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination across legally protected characteristics.