Technical Staff Engineer–Applications (PCIe)

Location: Burnaby, Canada. Travel to customer sites may be required for system debugging, deployments, and integration support, with travel expected 0%–25%.

Annual base salary: $107,000–$226,000, plus restricted stock units and quarterly bonus payments.

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor products and data-center solutions, including PCIe switches, storage controllers, RAID solutions, SAS/SATA controllers, NVMe controllers, and CXL architectures.

What you will do

• Lead customer platform enablement for Switchtec PCIe switch products used in data-center and AI platforms.
• Define technical requirements, manage deliverables, and support customer platforms from board bring-up through production release.
• Drive platform-level debugging, resolve complex hardware and firmware issues, and develop hardware guides, reference designs, firmware updates, and software tools.
• Deliver technical training and presentations to field teams and customer engineering groups, while mentoring junior engineers.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, QA, product management, marketing, sales, and customer engineering teams.
• Support system design, performance, reliability, product integration, lifecycle management, and customer-site deployments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 12+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Working knowledge of PCI Express and strong C and C++ programming skills.
• Experience developing test scripts in Perl, Bash, or Python.
• Experience with UNIX and Windows driver development and firmware development on lightweight embedded operating systems such as ThreadX, VxWorks, or eCos.
• Customer-facing engineering experience involving technical support, issue analysis, root-cause debugging, and system integration.
• Hands-on experience with protocol analyzers, exercisers, logic analyzers, and storage-related test equipment.

Nice to have

• Storage-industry experience and collaboration with marketing and sales teams.
• Experience with RISC-based embedded processors, preferably MIPS.
• Experience with WinDbg, JTAG, serial interfaces, Linux diagnostics, oscilloscopes, and multimeters.
• Knowledge of server and storage architectures, microprocessors, I/O interfaces, and electronics hardware development.

Culture & Benefits

• Health benefits begin on the first day of employment.
• Retirement savings plans and an employee stock purchase program with a six-month look-back feature.
• Restricted stock units and quarterly bonus payments are included in the compensation package.
• Access to employee development and leadership programs.
• Work with geographically distributed, cross-functional engineering and customer teams.