Sr. Specialist – Vehicle Dev. Tooling & Automation (Automotive)

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

Salary: $140,000–$170,000 annual base salary, 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

• Architect and implement end-to-end vehicle development toolchains from code commit and build through ECU flashing, HIL testing, data logging, and analysis.
• Build developer tools, CI/CD systems, dashboards, and reproducible development environments for embedded and distributed vehicle software.
• Automate ECU flashing, OTA package generation, HIL integration, and regression testing across benches, dynos, and fleet vehicles.
• Develop tooling for CAN, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet traffic monitoring, simulation, and signal-level validation.
• Create telemetry, log-parsing, monitoring, and alerting pipelines to support root-cause analysis across large datasets.
• Collaborate with software, systems, validation, MST, and supplier teams to debug issues across firmware, middleware, and hardware.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or a related field, with 10+ years of experience.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++, with experience in embedded systems, bare-metal or RTOS development, and Linux environments.
• Deep knowledge of vehicle E/E architecture, ECU software stacks, CAN, LIN, FlexRay, Automotive Ethernet, UDS diagnostics, and ISO 14229.
• Experience with CI/CD and development tools including GitHub or GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, and ALM/PLM platforms.
• Hands-on familiarity with CANalyzer, CANoe, A2B, LVDS, vehicle network tools, and development of fleet-scale data systems.
• Must work from the Charlotte headquarters office 4–5 days per week and be able to travel for company events.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to build vehicle products and engineering systems from the ground up.
• Medical, dental, vision, and income protection insurance plans.
• 401(k) plan with employer match and immediate vesting.
• Planned and unplanned paid time off, company and floating holidays, and up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave.