Hardware Design and Test Engineer - Board

Location: Torrance, California, United States

Salary: $112,500–$157,500 USD per year, plus potential equity grants.

Company

hirify.global is a defense technology company designing and manufacturing high-performance unmanned systems for modern battlefield applications.

What you will do

• Design board-level manufacturing test hardware, including bed-of-nails fixtures and custom fixturing for PCBA validation and production testing.
• Define test strategies covering ICT, functional testing, programming, calibration, metrology, and end-of-line validation.
• Develop fixture electronics, interface boards, signal-conditioning circuits, switching architectures, and measurement systems.
• Drive design-for-testability requirements, including test-point strategy, coverage, fault isolation, debug access, and programming interfaces.
• Deploy, qualify, and sustain test solutions with contract manufacturers, supplier production sites, and internal production teams.
• Analyze test coverage, yields, failure trends, throughput, reliability, and manufacturing quality to improve test effectiveness.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in electrical engineering, manufacturing test engineering, hardware validation, or product test development.
• Experience owning board-level and system-level test solutions from prototype builds through high-volume production.
• Proven experience with PCBA manufacturing test strategies, including ICT, bed-of-nails, flying probe, boundary scan/JTAG, functional testing, programming, calibration, and end-of-line validation.
• Strong knowledge of circuit design, schematic review, signal integrity, power distribution, analog and digital interfaces, and failure analysis.
• Hands-on experience designing and debugging custom test fixtures, interface boards, switching architectures, and automated test hardware.
• Proficiency with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, spectrum analyzers, DMMs, electronic loads, and environmental test equipment, plus familiarity with Python-based test frameworks, MES, traceability systems, and test-result databases.

Nice to have

• Manufacturing test experience for consumer, automotive, autonomous, aerospace, defense, robotics, or other complex products operating in harsh environments.
• Experience with RF systems, radios, telemetry links, antennas, GPS/GNSS, electronic-warfare-resilient communications, and wireless performance validation.
• Experience testing high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, USB, Ethernet, CAN, SPI, I2C, or MIPI.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, hands-on environment focused on reducing the gap between design and deployment.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Electrical Engineering, Firmware, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and contract manufacturing partners.
• Opportunity to work on unmanned systems tested in combat and produced at scale.
• Highly competitive equity grants as part of total compensation.