Sr. Specialist/TPM – L1 Test Management (Automotive SDV)

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

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

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead vehicle-level and lab-car feature integration and readiness activities across Software Defined Vehicle development programs.
• Coordinate hardware, software, firmware, calibration, network configuration, ECU availability, flashing readiness, and feature maturity.
• Drive Agile execution through sprint planning, backlog management, dependency tracking, release scheduling, and deployment milestones.
• Lead issue triage, defect tracking, risk mitigation, release blocker resolution, and engineering change control.
• Support integration vehicle, bench, and lab-car bring-up, stabilization, regression testing, OTA validation, diagnostics verification, and secure flashing workflows.
• Maintain integration dashboards, readiness trackers, release metrics, validation KPIs, executive updates, launch readiness reviews, and technical milestone reporting.

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-level software stacks, embedded systems, automotive communication protocols, and vehicle network tools.
• Experience with CAN, LIN, FlexRay, Ethernet, A2B, LVDS, UDS diagnostics under ISO 14229, CANalyzer, and CANoe.
• Expertise with Jira, GitHub or GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, and ALM/PLM tools such as Siemens Polarion, IBM DOORS Next Gen, 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.
• Ability to work in the Charlotte corporate office 4–5 days per week and travel for company events when required.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to build new electric vehicles and a company from the ground up.
• Medical, dental, vision, and income protection 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.