Staff Applications Hardware Engineer (ARM)

Location: On-site 5 days a week in NW Austin, Texas, United States. Candidates must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer.

Company

hirify.global develops ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions for wearables, medical devices, IoT products, and AI-powered edge applications.

What you will do

• Own PCB hardware architecture, schematic design, layout, development, testing, and system bring-up.
• Collaborate with software, design, validation, and field engineering teams to analyze and debug complex system-level issues.
• Conduct customer hardware design reviews, debug customer boards and components, and track issue resolution.
• Assist with embedded MCU drivers, algorithms, application code, board support packages, automated scripts, and design test cases.
• Develop manufacturing test procedures and hardware for overseas board builds.
• Create application notes, knowledgebase articles, hardware design guidelines, and support customers using the hirify.global SDK and hardware platforms.

Requirements

• MS in ECE with 6+ years of experience or BS in ECE with 8+ years of experience.
• Experience with hardware architecture, component placement, PCB layout, manufacturing tests, system bring-up, and testing.
• Experience designing PCB schematics and layouts with Altium Designer, Cadence, or similar tools.
• Experience with MCU peripherals including SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, MIPI, USB, I2S, and PDM.
• Experience with controlled-impedance and high-speed interface PCB layout, hands-on laboratory work, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
• Strong problem-solving skills for complex hardware/software debugging and device-level issues on SoCs.

Nice to have

• Wearable-device development experience.
• Experience with an ARM, Keil, IAR, Eclipse, or other MCU IDE.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration across design, research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations.
• Work focused on energy efficiency and low-power semiconductor technology.
• Opportunity to work on complex hardware and AI edge applications.
• No employment visa sponsorship or sponsorship takeover is available now or in the future.