Senior Embedded Systems Engineer – Power, Battery & Performance

TL;DR

Senior Embedded Systems Engineer – Power, Battery & Performance (Qualcomm/Android): Developing and validating system-level power, battery, and performance behavior for complex embedded platforms with an accent on electrical measurement, Qualcomm power architecture, and Android power management. Focus on correlating lab measurements with firmware, Linux, Android, thermal, and battery data to solve power regressions, sleep failures, and performance-per-watt challenges.

Location: Redmond, WA, United States

Salary: $130,000–$195,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a design house delivering connected consumer electronics and IoT products through in-house engineering projects, laboratories, and cross-functional technical teams.

What you will do

• Lead electrical power measurement and debug using oscilloscopes, power analyzers, electronic loads, bench supplies, NI DAQ systems, and Monsoon monitors.
• Design and execute structured characterization plans covering operating modes, workloads, sleep states, thermal conditions, peak current, battery life, and performance per watt.
• Analyze Android power and thermal behavior across framework, system services, HAL, drivers, Linux kernel, firmware, and Qualcomm platform power states.
• Correlate electrical measurements with BatteryStats, dumpsys, Perfetto, systrace, kernel traces, logcat, firmware traces, thermal data, and performance counters.
• Develop and validate power budgets, battery-life models, system power models, and energy consumption models.
• Collaborate with electrical, hardware, battery, firmware, Android, validation, and customer-facing teams during platform bring-up, EVT/DVT, factory investigations, and escalations.

Requirements

• 8+ years of embedded systems experience with a strong electrical engineering debug background.
• Direct experience with Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms, PMIC architecture, RPMh, power-collapse states, DSP subsystems, low-power modes, and Qualcomm power measurement or validation frameworks.
• Deep Android power management knowledge and strong Embedded Linux experience.
• Experience debugging Android Framework, HAL, Linux kernel, device drivers, firmware, hardware, and PMIC-related power issues.
• Strong C/C++ development skills and experience with schematics, board-level investigations, power measurement equipment, and system-level characterization.
• Experience building structured validation plans and investigating power, thermal, battery, sleep/resume, and performance-per-watt issues.

Nice to have

• Experience with complex SoCs, system-level power measurement frameworks, power models, and power budgets.
• Experience with factory, EVT/DVT, or laboratory power characterization.
• Exposure to embedded RTOS or bare-metal development.
• Proactive collaboration, ownership, adaptability, and strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Nordic work culture focused on knowledge sharing, collaboration, and work-life balance.
• Paid time off, vacation, and paid holidays.
• 401(k) plan with matching contributions.
• Life insurance, healthcare and dependent-care FSAs, and HSA.
• Paid parental and bereavement leave, employee assistance, and referral programs.
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance for positions in California.