Hardware Test Engineer (HW/SW Integration)

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, including drones, interceptors, and ground control systems.

What you will do

• Own assigned manufacturing test stations as the station DRI, covering hardware integration, bring-up, troubleshooting, calibration, maintenance, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain scalable test solutions for autonomous systems, embedded controllers, sensors, communication interfaces, power systems, and PCBAs.
• Debug hardware and test failures with oscilloscopes, power supplies, digital multimeters, logic analyzers, and other laboratory instrumentation.
• Extend test frameworks and automation code, add test coverage, integrate measurements, and build repeatable tests for embedded and hardware systems.
• Partner with Electrical Engineering, Firmware, Software Test, Manufacturing, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, and contract manufacturing teams.
• Analyze production test data, yield trends, and failure modes to improve coverage, station uptime, product quality, and manufacturing scalability.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of experience in hardware test engineering, manufacturing test, electrical validation, or embedded systems testing.
• Experience developing, deploying, supporting, and debugging production test stations for complex electronic products.
• Strong understanding of board-level architectures, schematics, power distribution, circuit analysis, and digital interfaces including CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, and Ethernet.
• Proficiency with electrical laboratory equipment, including oscilloscopes, power supplies, digital multimeters, and logic analyzers.
• Ability to read and modify test automation code in Python or similar languages.
• Experience using test data, failure logs, and yield metrics for root-cause analysis and continuous improvement.

Nice to have

• Experience with sensor-based systems such as IMUs, cameras, LiDAR, GPS/GNSS, magnetometers, and barometers.
• Experience testing or debugging RF and wireless systems, radios, telemetry links, antennas, and spectrum measurements.
• Experience with embedded hardware and autonomy systems, including flight controllers, compute modules, motor controllers, navigation systems, or ground control stations.
• Board-level debugging experience involving schematic review, PCB bring-up, power integrity, high-speed digital interfaces, and hardware validation.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, hands-on environment focused on moving autonomous defense capabilities from design to deployment.
• Work on high-reliability unmanned systems tested in demanding operational environments.
• Compensation includes base salary and potentially highly competitive equity grants.