Sr. Specialist – L2 Drive Energy Integration (Automotive)

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

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

Company

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

What you will do

• Integrate domain controllers and distributed ECUs into the vehicle E/E architecture, focusing on drive and energy systems.
• Own software integration and validation across vehicle maturity, performance, and release gates, approving integration builds by milestone.
• Integrate and validate propulsion, battery management, charging, regenerative braking, thermal management, power distribution, torque management, and energy optimization features.
• Support hardware and software bring-up, calibration validation, and vehicle-level testing across prototype, bench, HIL, SIL, dyno, and vehicle environments.
• Validate CAN, CAN-FD, LIN, FlexRay, and Automotive Ethernet communication, including network topology, gateway routing, signal databases, bandwidth, and bus loading.
• Validate bootloader, flashing, AUTOSAR partitioning, diagnostic behavior, UDS/DoIP timing, DTC accuracy, wake/sleep strategies, and power-state transitions.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field, with 10+ years of experience.
• Strong knowledge of vehicle E/E architecture, ECU software stacks, automotive communication protocols, UDS diagnostics, and diagnostic tools.
• Experience developing and verifying plant and control models in MATLAB/Simulink for HIL testing with dSpace ControlDesk and AutomationDesk.
• Expertise with Jira, GitHub or GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, and ALM/PLM tools such as Siemens Polarion, IBM DOORS Next Gen, or PTC Windchill.
• Familiarity with embedded software, A2B, CAN, Automotive Ethernet, LIN, LVDS, CANalyzer, CANoe, and vehicle network tools.
• Ability to work in the Charlotte office 4–5 days per week and participate in in-person meetings and travel.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to build electric vehicles and a new automotive company from the ground up.
• Medical, dental, vision, and income protection plans.
• 401(k) with employer match 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, and military service.