Platform Engineer (FPGA/GPU)

Location: Hybrid in San Jose, CA, with on-site work required three days per week. Access to export-controlled information requires U.S. person status, eligibility without export authorization, or eligibility and reasonable likelihood of obtaining the required U.S. authorization.

Salary: $156,000–$186,000 per year, plus equity and comprehensive benefits.

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations and spacecraft for mission-critical Earth intelligence, including climate monitoring and national security applications.

What you will do

• Own and evolve build flows, test environments, integration pipelines, and delivery processes for FPGA and GPU code.
• Maintain synthesis, simulation, profiling, cross-compilation, and containerized toolchain environments.
• Develop shared components and reference flows to reduce variation across missions and downstream consumers.
• Manage the Onboard Compute roadmap in Jira, including epics, stories, dashboards, JQL, reporting, and resource-utilization snapshots.
• Lead estimation and planning discussions, track planning-accuracy metrics, and publish weekly status reports.
• Maintain Confluence documentation and support onboarding and training materials for tooling, build flows, and platform practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, plus 3+ years of professional engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with FPGA and/or GPU workflows, including synthesis or compilation toolchains, simulation or profiling environments, and build or release pipelines.
• Experience with build systems, test environments, and integration pipelines for embedded or hardware-adjacent codebases.
• Ability to manage variation across multiple products, missions, or configurations using shared components, reference flows, or platform contracts.
• Strong scripting, Jira, Confluence, estimation, planning, reporting, and technical communication skills.
• Must meet applicable U.S. Government export-control access requirements for the role.

Nice to have

• Experience as a Platform, Engineering Productivity, Developer Experience, DevOps, or Build/Release Engineer supporting FPGA, embedded, or GPU teams.
• Experience with Vivado, Quartus, NVIDIA Jetson or IGX-class platforms, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or lab-bench regression infrastructure.
• Familiarity with containerization and development pipeline tooling.
• Exposure to space, aerospace, or other mission-critical engineering environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employees receive equity compensation.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance are provided.
• Benefits include a 401(k), short- and long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
• New employees receive three weeks of paid vacation, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation support are provided.