Specialist, L1 Integration Testing (Automotive)

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

Annual base salary: $110,000–$135,000, plus eligibility for an annual performance bonus.

Company

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

What you will do

• Integrate domain controllers and distributed ECUs into the vehicle electrical and electronic architecture.
• Own software integration, vehicle-level validation, regression planning, and approval of integration builds across software maturity and release milestones.
• Validate CAN, CAN-FD, LIN, FlexRay, and Automotive Ethernet communication, including network topology, gateway routing, signal databases, bandwidth, and bus loading.
• Coordinate integration across powertrain and electrification, body and comfort, ADAS, infotainment, connectivity, central compute, and zonal controller domains.
• Validate system behavior under nominal, boundary, fault-injection, high-bus-load, low-voltage, cold-crank, power-cycle, and OTA scenarios.
• Analyze cross-domain issues, support integration war rooms during DV/PV builds, and release functional KPIs covering defect leakage, build stability, bus-load margins, flashing success, and integration maturity.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field, with 4+ years of experience.
• Strong understanding of vehicle E/E architecture, ECU software stacks, automotive communication protocols, UDS diagnostics, and diagnostic tools.
• Expertise with Jira, GitHub or GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, and ALM/PLM tools such as Siemens Polarion, IBM DOORS Next Generation, or PTC Windchill.
• Experience developing and verifying plant and control models in MATLAB/Simulink for hardware-in-the-loop environments, including dSPACE ControlDesk and AutomationDesk.
• Familiarity with embedded software, A2B, CAN, Automotive Ethernet, LIN, LVDS, and vehicle network tools such as CANalyzer and CANoe.
• Ability to work onsite in Charlotte 4–5 days per week and travel for company events when required.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to build new vehicles and help establish an automotive company and product portfolio from the ground up.
• Medical, dental, vision, and income protection plans.
• 401(k) program with employer match and immediate vesting.
• Paid time off including planned and unplanned PTO, company or floating holidays, paid parental leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, voting time, and military leave.
• Inclusive, entrepreneurial, and collaborative engineering environment.