Senior QA Engineer (Performance & Reliability)

Location: San Jose, California, United States

Salary: USD 100,000–160,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops Trusted Control/Compute Unit solutions that combine hardware security, AI-driven resilience, efficiency, and real-time platform management for data centers and cloud infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design and execute performance benchmarks, stress tests, longevity and endurance tests, and thermal and power characterization for TCU and BMC systems.
• Analyze heavy workloads to identify throughput, latency, and CPU, memory, and PCIe utilization bottlenecks.
• Conduct MTBF prediction, long-duration stability testing, and error-injection campaigns.
• Lead root-cause investigations using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, firmware traces, crash dumps, and other debugging tools.
• Collaborate with firmware and hardware engineers to reproduce issues and verify fixes.
• Develop automated performance testing frameworks, reporting dashboards, and reliability metrics.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in embedded system testing, performance verification, and reliability engineering.
• Knowledge of TCU, BMC, HMC, Root of Trust, Secure Boot, TPM, HSM, PCIe Gen4/5, DDR memory, and networking protocols.
• Experience with performance profiling tools, traffic generators, standard benchmarks, and thermal and power measurement tools.
• Strong Python scripting skills for test automation and data analysis; familiarity with C/C++ for code analysis.
• Strong Linux/Unix skills, including kernel tuning, system monitoring, and log analysis.
• Experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, Git, and a BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-driven log analysis or anomaly detection for reliability prediction.
• Validation experience with PCIe, CXL, DDR5, or LPDDR5.
• Background in data center server architecture and thermal management.
• Knowledge of Telcordia or JEDEC reliability standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-growing semiconductor, systems, and solutions company.
• Collaborate across hardware, firmware, and systems engineering disciplines.
• Focus on practical real-world security and reliability challenges.
• Continuous learning, mutual support, curiosity, persistence, and problem-solving are valued.
• Diverse and multifaceted work environment with equal employment opportunity.