Staff Validation & Tools Engineer - Embedded Firmware

Location: Palo Alto, United States; hybrid

Salary: $170,000–$210,000 per year, depending on experience, qualifications, and location.

Company

hirify.global is an electric mobility company developing vertically integrated small electric vehicles to address global transportation challenges.

What you will do

• Define the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for embedded firmware and software validation.
• Design and scale SIL and HIL infrastructure for automated system testing, regression coverage, release readiness, and issue reproduction.
• Build validation frameworks, metrics, reporting, and CI/CD workflows that improve coverage, reliability, traceability, and release quality.
• Lead validation planning for firmware releases, new features, connectivity workflows, and system-level product behavior.
• Perform root-cause analysis across hardware, firmware, embedded software, connectivity, and test infrastructure.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and communicate validation status and release readiness to engineering and product leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in software engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in embedded software validation, firmware testing, software quality engineering, or validation tools development.
• Experience building automated validation frameworks for firmware, embedded software, system-level testing, or hardware-in-the-loop environments on RTOS- or Linux-based systems.
• Strong knowledge of embedded architectures, microcontrollers, bootloaders, firmware updates, hardware/software interfaces, and board-level debugging with JTAG, SWD, serial consoles, logic analyzers, or oscilloscopes.
• Strong Python programming and scripting skills with Robot Framework or Pytest, plus experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
• Experience with connectivity technologies, SIL/HIL validation, automotive protocols, test management, requirements management, bug tracking, and tools such as Vector CANoe or CANalyzer.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work on new electric mobility products in a cross-functional engineering environment.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance covered up to 100%, with FSA and HSA options.
• One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates.
• Fertility and family-building benefits through Progyny.
• Flexible time off and a 401(k) match.