Lead Engineer - Vehicle SW Package + SW Builds (Automotive)

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States; requires 4–5 days per week in the office, regular in-person meetings, events, and occasional travel.

Salary: $160,000–$192,500 annual base salary, plus eligibility for an annual performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global is developing electrified, digitally enabled rugged SUVs and pickup trucks, including all-electric and range-extender powertrains.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end vehicle software build and compilation pipelines for Software Defined Vehicle platforms.
• Compile and assemble ECU binaries, calibration artifacts, configuration manifests, feature flags, diagnostics, and service packages into integrated, flashable vehicle images.
• Build reproducible packages for vehicle variants, hardware versions, lab cars, HIL/SIL environments, OTA delivery, and production.
• Integrate vehicle build systems with CI/CD pipelines and implement validation gates for compilation success, artifact completeness, compatibility, and package consistency.
• Manage artifact repositories, lifecycle policies, versioning, access control, retention, hashing, checksums, signing, encryption, and provenance tracking.
• Lead technical arbitration, structured problem solving, and milestone ownership in high-pressure launch environments.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, with 12+ years of experience.
• Strong experience in build compilation, software packaging, or vehicle-level software assembly systems.
• Deep understanding of embedded ECU ecosystems, distributed automotive architectures, and embedded software and electrical/electronic systems.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps, plus Git workflows, artifact management, and version control.
• Strong scripting and automation skills with Python, Bash, or Groovy; expertise with Jira, GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, and Artifactory.
• Knowledge of automotive development processes, system requirements, and communication protocols including A2B, CAN, Automotive Ethernet, LIN, and LVDS; familiarity with CANalyzer or CANoe.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial, collaborative, and fast-paced environment focused on building a new automotive company and products.
• Medical, dental, vision, and income protection insurance plans.
• 401(k) program with employer matching and immediate vesting.
• 20 days of planned PTO, 40 hours of unplanned PTO, and 14 company or floating holidays annually.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, plus paid leave for bereavement, jury duty, voting time, and military leave.