Test & Reliability Engineer (Robotics Hardware)

Location: Fully onsite at the Irvine, California office

Salary: $100,000–$150,000 per year, plus benefits and equity.

Company

hirify.global develops risk-aware, reliable, and field-ready AI systems for robots operating in complex, unstructured environments.

What you will do

• Build testing and validation infrastructure across mechanical, electrical, embedded, and sensor systems.
• Conduct thermal, shock, vibration, HALT/HASS, ingress protection, destructive, nondestructive, EMI/EMC, and sensor validation testing.
• Support FCC, CE, safety, quality, and functional-safety compliance through internal processes and third-party laboratories.
• Develop incoming and outbound quality controls, sampling/AQL plans, test procedures, equipment logs, and calibration traceability.
• Monitor fleet health, uptime, calibration status, failure rates, MTBF, and MTTR across deployed robotic platforms.
• Perform debugging, root-cause and RMA failure analysis, maintenance, component retrofits, and production-readiness evaluations.

Requirements

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in hardware testing, quality, or reliability engineering.
• Experience with mechanical and electrical testing, environmental and reliability testing, and third-party test labs.
• Experience with IQC, OQC, sampling/AQL, and quality processes, preferably in ISO 9001-aligned environments.
• Ability to evaluate integrated mechanical, electrical, embedded, sensor, thermal, and software systems across robotic platforms.
• Familiarity with USB, Ethernet, CAN, I2C, and GMSL, as well as oscilloscopes, logs, power monitors, and EMI/FCC analyzers.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling systems from prototype to large-scale production.
• Experience with harsh industrial field environments such as construction, energy, and mining.
• Background with deployed autonomous vehicles, drones, ruggedized robots, or wheeled, quadruped, and humanoid platforms.
• Experience with ISO 26262, SIL, MTBF/MTTR, fleet monitoring, RMA analysis, and building test or quality functions.

Culture & Benefits

• Onsite collaboration is required, with flexible working hours to support focus and work-life balance.
• Full benefits, equity, and generous time off are included in the compensation package.
• Work on robotics deployed in construction, energy, mining, and other challenging field environments.
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team working across AI, software, hardware, and field deployment.
• Inclusive workplace with evaluations based on merit, qualifications, and performance.