Sr. Specialist – Diagnostics Integration (Automotive)

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

Annual base salary: $140,000–$170,000, plus eligibility for an annual performance bonus.

Company

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

What you will do

• Define and implement diagnostics architecture across powertrain, energy, ADAS, chassis, body, infotainment, and other vehicle domains.
• Own end-to-end validation, release sign-off, and production-readiness assessment for vehicle diagnostic systems before Start of Production.
• Establish ECU diagnostic acceptance criteria and validate fault handling, service, manufacturing, and vehicle-level diagnostic flows.
• Execute validation across software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and vehicle integration environments; develop scalable regression test suites.
• Debug CAN, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet issues, including bus saturation, timing drift, signal loss, gateway failures, and cross-ECU integration problems.
• Coordinate integration across electrification, body and comfort, ADAS, infotainment, connectivity, central compute, and zonal controller systems.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field, with 10+ years of experience.
• Strong understanding of vehicle E/E architecture, ECU software stacks, CAN, LIN, FlexRay, Ethernet, UDS diagnostics, and diagnostic communication tools.
• Experience developing and verifying plant and control models in MATLAB/Simulink for hardware-in-the-loop environments, including dSPACE ControlDesk and AutomationDesk.
• Expertise with Jira, GitHub or GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, and ALM/PLM tools such as Siemens Polarion, IBM DOORS Next Generation, or PTC Windchill.
• Familiarity with embedded software, A2B, LVDS, vehicle network tools such as CANalyzer and CANoe, system requirements, and automotive development processes.
• Ability to work onsite in Charlotte 4–5 days per week and travel for company events and integration activities.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to build electric vehicles and a new automotive company from the ground up.
• Medical, dental, vision, and income protection insurance plans.
• 401(k) program with employer matching and immediate vesting.
• Paid time off, company and floating holidays, and up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Paid leave for bereavement, jury duty, voting time, and military leave.