Senior Embedded Engineer, Safety

Location: Andover, Massachusetts, USA; hybrid work arrangement. Up to 25% travel may be required to support integration, testing, and customer-site collaboration.

Salary: $120,000–$165,000 base pay annually, plus benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered robotic and software platforms for high-density warehouse automation and supply chain operations.

What you will do

• Design and implement safety-relevant software components in modern C++17 for QNX and POSIX-based systems.
• Develop services interfacing with hardware peripherals, low-level communication protocols, and vendor SDKs.
• Build and maintain Python-based hardware-in-the-loop test automation infrastructure.
• Participate in hazard analysis, DFMEA, FMEDA, fault tree analysis, safety reviews, audits, and third-party safety assessments.
• Collaborate with systems, hardware, project management, and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Improve build systems, CI pipelines, developer tooling, and software test infrastructure.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering discipline; a master’s degree is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of systems-level or embedded software development experience.
• Strong experience with C++, C, Rust, Go, or similar systems programming languages.
• Strong understanding of POSIX userspace concepts, including threads, sockets, signals, IPC, and shared memory.
• Experience working close to hardware with datasheets, register maps, and hardware interface documentation.
• Professional experience developing Python tooling or automation infrastructure for testing or integration workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience with QNX or other real-time operating systems.
• Exposure to IEC 61508 or other functional safety standards.
• TÜV Functional Safety Engineer certification.
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing, binary communication protocols, or vendor SDK integration.
• Open-source contributions or experience with open-core development.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative engineering culture focused on technical rigor, maintainable systems, and problem solving.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k), PTO, and other benefits.
• Employees must hold a valid driver’s license and be able to drive and/or fly to client locations.
• Travel expenses are reimbursed biweekly; employees manage expenses using a personal credit card.